Thorns themselves will not harm you -- you hurt yourself on the thorns.

荆棘本身并不会伤害你——你是被荆棘刺痛了自己。

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We all have a natural instinct to protect children from harm. It's never fun to see a child hurt, even if it's just a scraped knee. But on the other hand, children need to take on physical challenges to learn and grow, and scraped knees and other bumps and bruises teach them valuable lessons about their own limits.

我们都有保护儿童免受伤害的自然本能。看到孩子受伤从来都不是一件有趣的事,即使只是擦伤了膝盖。但另一方面,孩子们需要接受身体上的挑战来学习和成长,擦伤膝盖和其他磕碰和瘀伤教会了他们关于自身极限的宝贵经验。

I have seen one shrike occupy himself for hours in sticking up on thorns, a number of small fishes that the fishermen had thrown on the shore. The fishes dried up and decayed.

我曾看到一只伯劳在荆棘上挣扎了好几个小时,那是渔民们扔到岸上的一些小鱼。鱼干了,腐烂了。

The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.

战争的自然原则是:以最小的伤害自己,最大的伤害敌人;这当然要靠策略来实现。

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.

对花最敏感的心,总是最先被花的刺触及。