For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn.

  • -- William Banting 威廉·班廷

为了论证和说明,我假定某些日常饮食习惯,无论在青年时期多么有益,在老年时期却有害无益,就像豆子对马一样,马的日常饮食就是干草和玉米。

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When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better.

当两个人第一次见面时,他们只能拥有一种很普通的友谊。但当你开始了解对方,当你接近他们时,你会发现你突然渴望更好地了解他或她。

That's what we're missing. We're missing argument. We're missing debate. We're missing colloquy. We're missing all sorts of things. Instead, we're accepting.

这就是我们所缺少的。我们丢失的论点。我们丢失的辩论。我们丢失的对话录。我们错过了很多东西。相反,我们接受。

Maybe it's a little ambitious of me to presume that no matter how big the film is, that I can always go down to the shop to buy a pint of milk.

也许我有点野心勃勃地认为,不管电影有多大,我总是可以去商店买一品脱牛奶。

The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.

普通人以一种我们不太理解的方式投下了阴影。天才会发光。

The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.

我所知道的有关永生的最好的论据是一个值得拥有永生的人的存在。

Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.

政治不是豆袋。这是很严肃,很艰难的事情。

I don't presume to think I'm great at anything.

我并不认为自己擅长任何事情。

Good corn is not reaped from a bad field.

好玉米不是从坏地里收割来的。

Every bean hath its black.

人皆有缺点。