Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

  • -- Marcus Tullius Cicero 西塞罗

无论是参议员还是演说家,言简意赅都是最好的推荐。

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With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch.

有了这种体验的壮丽感和它可怕的简练感,把我们所有的一切都集中到一个绝望的努力去看和触摸,我们将几乎没有时间对我们所看到和触摸的事物做出理论。

By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.

由于增加了钥匙孔的尺寸,今天的剧作家们正面临着取消这扇门的危险。

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

生活没有好坏之分,只有好坏之分。

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

永远不要过于简短以至于变得晦涩难懂。