The same practice was continued every evening through the whole course, and with the same success. Many individuals expressed their gratification at having discovered such simple means of relieving the tedium of a long discourse.

  • -- George Combe 乔治·康布

在整个课程中,每天晚上都进行同样的练习,并取得了同样的成功。许多人表示,他们很高兴发现了这样一种简单的方法,可以减轻冗长演讲的沉闷。

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We are often too late with our brilliance. We are on time delay. The only instant gratification comes in the form of potato chips. The rest will find us by surprise somewhere down the road maybe as we sleep and dream of other things.

我们的聪明才智往往来得太晚。我们准时到达。唯一的即时满足感来自于薯片。其余的人会在我们睡觉和做其他梦的时候,在路上某个地方意外地发现我们。

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.

对于诗人来说,平庸现在和从前一样,是危险的,通常是致命的;但是,即使是成功的散文作家,那些理智地超越它的人也是非常罕见的例外。

The only thing I miss from the sitcom format is that immediate gratification of when you're, if we're talking about comedy, of the live audience.

我唯一怀念的是情景喜剧的形式,当你是,如果我们说的是喜剧,现场观众的即时满足感。

I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you don't like?

我相信运气:不然你怎么解释那些你不喜欢的人的成功呢?