I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April.

  • -- Christopher Columbus 克里斯托弗·哥伦布

我并不急于在这里详细考察每一件事,事实上,这在五十年之内是不可能完成的,因为我的愿望是找出所有可能的发现,如果我们的主高兴的话,我想在四月回到殿下那里去。

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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。

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

年龄不是一个特别有趣的话题。任何人都可能变老。你所要做的就是活得足够长久。

Designing a house is like doing a movie: Once you're done, you want to say, 'I hope you all enjoy it.'

设计一栋房子就像拍电影:一旦你完成了,你就想说,“我希望你们都喜欢它。”

I do a great deal of research - particularly in the apartments of tall blondes.

我做了大量的研究——尤其是在那些金发碧眼的高个子的公寓里。