Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

  • -- Thomas Carlyle 托马斯·卡莱尔

当想象力不得不与理解分开时,它是一件可怜的事情。

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There is all the difference in the world between departure from recognised rules by one who has learned to obey them, and neglect of them through want of training or want of skill or want of understanding. Before you can be eccentric you must know where the circle is.

一个已经学会遵守公认规则的人背离这些规则,或者由于缺乏训练、技能或理解而忽视这些规则,这两者之间有着天壤之别。在你变得古怪之前,你必须知道圆在哪里。

Love is more than just a feeling: it's a process requiring continual attention. Loving well takes laughter, loyalty, and wanting more to be able to say, "I understand" than to hear, "You're right."

爱不仅仅是一种感觉:它是一个需要持续关注的过程。良好的爱需要笑声、忠诚,需要更多的是能够说“我理解”,而不是听到“你是对的”。

I'm sure that you could go back and make a graph showing that all the killings of black males increased in times of economic difficulty. As a matter of fact, a black man was lynched last year.

我相信你们可以回去做一个图表显示所有对黑人男性的杀戮都是在经济困难时期增加的。事实上,去年有一个黑人被私刑处死。

Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised by the authors to save the appearances, exist only in the imagination.

现在我很清楚,天空中没有实心的球体,而那些被作者们设计出来以拯救表象的球体,只存在于想象中。

Dedication involves making the space to let young ideas take hold; every tree was once a seed and every company was once an idea.

奉献包括为年轻的想法腾出空间;每棵树都曾是一粒种子,每一个公司都曾是一个想法。

Usually people who are in my position, they run a company and they hire people and then they take the credit for it.

通常像我这样的人,他们经营一家公司,雇用员工,然后把功劳归于自己。

It doesn't matter. You are what you are. I am what I am. We are the same-when you take the time to remember me.

没关系。你就是你。我就是我。我们是一样的——只要你肯花时间来记住我。

Music gives a soul to the universe wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.

音乐给宇宙赋予灵魂,给心灵插上翅膀,给想象插上翅膀,给万物赋予生命。

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

但如今撒但比从前更有智慧,他诱惑人是要得人的钱财,不是要得人的贫穷。

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

当富人想到穷人时,他们的想法很糟糕。