When the pressure comes, preferences give way while convictions hold firm.

  • -- Edwin Louis Cole 埃德温·路易斯·科尔

当压力来临时,偏好让步,而信念坚定。

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We're competing with everything: the beach, the mall, bookstores. Libraries are in a transition right now, caught between two forces, the old ways and technology. Libraries are under a lot of pressure to provide both.

我们在与一切竞争:海滩、商场、书店。图书馆现在正处于转型之中,夹在两股力量之间,一股是旧的方式,另一股是技术。图书馆承受着提供这两种服务的巨大压力。

That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.

我毫不怀疑,这个地方的大多数废奴主义者会优先光顾一家免费的劳工商店;但我们没有在辛辛那提筹集资金。

My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one.

我更喜欢的是,当有人把三脚架放在你面前,顶上放着相机的那一天,不是第一天。

Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.

有信念。是友好的。坚持你的信念,就像他们坚持他们的一样。像他们一样努力工作。

The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.

目前,生活的建构更多地取决于事实,而不是信念。

I think sometimes I don't realise how much the pressure gets to me.

我想有时我没有意识到压力有多大。