Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.

  • -- Edmund Waller 沃勒

圆被称赞,不是因为多,而是因为圆。

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If you have a kid who goes to kindergarten and doesn't know what a circle is, doesn't know what red and green are, and doesn't know what right and left are, by the time he learns those things, the rest of the class is far ahead of him.

如果你有个孩子上幼儿园,却不知道圆是什么,不知道红和绿是什么,也不知道左和右是什么,当他学会这些东西的时候,班里的其他人已经远远超过他了。

To the house of a friend if you're pleased to retire, You must all things admit, you must all things admire; You must pay with observance the price of your treat, You must eat what is praised, and must praise what you eat.

到朋友家去,如果你愿意退休,你必须事事承认,事事佩服;你们要谨守所当得的价银,吃那当赞美的,吃那当赞美的。

If our countries had war the one with the other, that was no cause that he should put us to death; with which they were out of heart that their cruel pretense failed them. For which God be forever-more praised.

如果我们两国之间发生战争,他没有理由把我们处死;他们对他们残酷的伪装感到失望。为此,神要受更大的赞美,直到永远。

Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his own.

粗糙晦涩的定义除了在一小群学生中起作用外没有任何用处,他们中可能每个人都有自己的宠物。