I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric.

  • -- Gerrit Smith 赫里特·史密斯

我是个平实的人,比较不关心也不太懂修辞。

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For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

一个作家边写边写,就像他犯了相反的错误一样,应该受到谴责;因为这给他所说的话带来了一种迂腐的效果,同时也使他的话难以理解。

I do a show. It comes on late at night on TV. And if that means I'm a late-night talk show host, then I guess I am, but in every other regard I resign my commission, I don't care for it.

我做一个节目。它在深夜的电视上播出。如果这意味着我是一个深夜脱口秀主持人,那么我想我是,但在其他方面我辞职了,我不在乎。

I've never been on Wall Street. And I care about Wall Street for one reason and one reason only because what happens on Wall Street matters to Main Street.

我从未在华尔街工作过。我关心华尔街有一个原因,也只有一个原因,那就是华尔街发生的事情对普通民众很重要。

I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star.

我真的没有兴趣出名。当我写书的时候,它将成为我避免成为摇滚明星的指南。

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

自由已经付出了太多的鲜血和痛苦,不能以廉价的言辞换取自由。

I think there should be bad blood between all clubs.

我认为所有俱乐部之间都应该有嫌隙。