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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First and foremost, you have to remember that restaurants are businesses and they have to stay in business. And though everyone thinks they want grass fed beef, most people actually prefer the taste of corn fed - it is less dry, more marbled, and less gamey, not to mention much less expensive than grass fed.

首先,也最重要的是,你必须记住,餐馆是企业,它们必须继续经营下去。虽然每个人都认为他们想要草饲牛肉,但大多数人实际上更喜欢玉米饲牛肉的味道——它没有草饲牛肉那么干,大理石更多,也没有那么甘美,更不用说比草饲牛肉便宜得多。

Experience has taught me to believe that, these human beans are the most insidious enemies man, with a tendency to corpulence in advanced life, can possess, though eminently friendly to youth.

经验告诉我,这些人类的豆子是人类最阴险的敌人,人在老年时往往会发胖,尽管对青年特别友好。

Everyone's entitled to express their political beliefs. I don't presume to tell anybody who to vote for. I am comfortable telling people what my opinions are.

每个人都有权表达自己的政治信仰。我不敢告诉任何人该投谁的票。我很乐意告诉别人我的观点。

I think people like players they can relate to. It seems as if people think they know me. I just think I'm an ordinary Joe who plays golf very, very well.

我认为人们喜欢和他们有共鸣的球员。人们似乎认为他们认识我。我只是觉得我是一个打高尔夫球打得非常非常好的普通人。

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。

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

以权相争的,不是用自己的聪明;他只是在利用他的记忆。

I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.

我不是弥赛亚,而是一个平凡的人,因为特殊的环境而成为一个领袖。

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。

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

嘲笑是傻瓜的第一个也是最后一个论据。

Good corn is not reaped from a bad field.

好玉米不是从坏地里收割来的。