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In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain.

  • -- Phaedrus 菲得洛斯

在外表上是那么辉煌，那么虚荣;这只不过是一块没有大脑的镀金的石头。

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Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.

乍一看，似乎没有什么比人类行为的外在形式更不重要的了，然而，没有什么比这更值得人们重视的了:除了生活在一个没有自己礼仪的社会里，人们对一切都习以为常了。

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As a columnist, I realize that whatever amount of corruption I expose, half my readers will block it out, although they may get a frisson of joy in the process.

作为一名专栏作家，我意识到，不管我揭露了多少腐败，半数读者都会把它挡在门外，尽管他们可能会在这个过程中感到一阵喜悦。

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As a person I'm perfectly vain, I'm just vainer as an actor about my ability. My acting vanity trumps my human vanity.

作为一个人，我是完全虚荣的，作为一个演员，我对自己的能力只是徒劳。我行为上的虚荣心胜过人性上的虚荣心。

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Science Fiction will never run out of things to wonder about until the human race ceases to use its brain.

在人类停止使用大脑之前，科幻小说永远不会缺少值得思考的东西。

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From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.

由于读得太多，睡得太少，他的头脑变得迟钝，失去了判断力。

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But you know, I always said that no one else on my block was on the radio, and it was fun.

但你知道，我总是说，我住的街区里没有其他人在听广播，这很有趣。

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If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

如果我们内心没有安宁，那么从外部寻求安宁是徒劳的。

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To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.

做一个人自己的傻瓜已经够糟了，但是虚荣的人却是每个人的。

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Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.

人是高贵的动物，在灰烬中光艳夺目，在坟墓中却趾高气扬。

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'Tis always morning somewhere in the world.

世界上总有某个地方是早晨。

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