Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.

  • -- Alexis de Tocqueville 托克维尔

乍一看,似乎没有什么比人类行为的外在形式更不重要的了,然而,没有什么比这更值得人们重视的了:除了生活在一个没有自己礼仪的社会里,人们对一切都习以为常了。

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A person's credit report is one of the most important tools consumers can use to maintain their financial security and credit rating, but for so long many did not know how to obtain one, or what to do with the information it provided.

个人信用报告是消费者用来维护其财务安全和信用评级的最重要工具之一,但长期以来,许多人不知道如何获得信用报告,也不知道如何处理它提供的信息。

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

智慧是知识的正确运用。知道并不等于明智。许多人懂得很多,却都是大傻瓜。再大的傻瓜也比不上有知识的傻瓜。但知道如何运用知识就是拥有智慧。

Actually, I feel music becoming more and more important. It's a big source of inspiration. With what's going on in the world, we feel almost desperate. Music also brings you peace.

事实上,我觉得音乐变得越来越重要。这是一个很大的灵感来源。面对世界上正在发生的一切,我们几乎感到绝望。音乐也能给你带来平静。

Stand true to your calling to be a man. Real women will always be relieved and grateful when men are willing to be men.

坚持做一个真正的男人。当男人愿意成为男人时,真正的女人会感到宽慰和感激。

Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.

书的特色在于其主题的宏大,而不是它们被对待的方式。

Children at certain ages have distinct actions, and boys at certain ages have a particular way of acting too.

特定年龄的孩子有不同的行为,而特定年龄的男孩也有特定的行为方式。

There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.

以一种令人愉快的方式,几乎没有一种个人缺点不能使人逐渐适应。

Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.

也许我不是一个很有人性的人——我想做的是在房子的一侧画上阳光。

If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

如果我们内心没有安宁,那么从外部寻求安宁是徒劳的。

In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain.

在外表上是那么辉煌,那么虚荣;这只不过是一块没有大脑的镀金的石头。

The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.

人的灵魂需要真正的美,而不是面包。

He is in no place who is everywhere.

无处不在的人是不存在的。