Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

  • -- Chanakya 考底利耶

书对愚蠢的人有用,就像镜子对盲人有用一样。

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It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.

对历史学家和其他人来说,能够看到不同现象的最常见的形式是很有用的,无论是语音的、形态的还是其他的,以及语言如何生存、继续和随着时间的推移而变化。

Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed.

就像水一样,只有在表面不受干扰的情况下,才能清楚地反映出天空和树木,只有在内心平静和完全放松的时候,才能反映出真实的自我形象。

He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.

他以如此谦卑的客观态度再现了自己,带着一条狗在镜子里看到自己并想:还有另一条狗。

Now, drama is quite useful at helping us to understand what our position is and, conversely, we might then understand why our theatre is being destroyed.

现在,戏剧在帮助我们理解我们的处境时非常有用,相反,我们可能会理解为什么我们的剧院正在被摧毁。

My idea of a good time is creating something and reading a good book.

我心目中的美好时光就是创造一些东西,读一本好书。

I put my soul into every book I write.

我把我的灵魂投入到我写的每一本书中。