Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means.

  • -- Van Wyck Brooks 范·威克·布鲁克斯

没有什么比拥有世俗的标准而没有世俗的手段更可悲的了。

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We should be proud of our country when we have done something to be proud of, when we have lived up to our own standards. But the flip side of genuine pride is being able to recognize when we have fallen short, and to hold ourselves to account.

当我们做了一些值得骄傲的事情,当我们达到了自己的标准,我们应该为我们的国家感到骄傲。但真正自豪的另一面是,我们能够意识到自己什么时候做不到,并对自己负责。

Out of the past come the standards for judging the present; standards in turn to be shaped by the practice of present-day dramatists into broader standards for the next generation.

评判现在的标准从过去而来;标准又被当代剧作家的实践塑造为下一代更广泛的标准。