As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.

  • -- Wallace Stevens 华莱士·史蒂文斯

随着生活变得越来越可怕,文学也变得越来越可怕。

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It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.

说没有人会吹嘘自己对文学的无知几乎已经成了陈词滥调,但吹嘘自己对科学的无知、自豪地宣称自己在数学方面的无能是可以被社会接受的。

Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.

爱生长。欲望因享受而浪费,原因是,一个来自灵魂的结合,另一个来自感觉的结合。

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

死亡无人能免,但非凡的成就会树起一座纪念碑,它将一直立到太阳冷却之时。

Funny way to spend your life, though, studying another chap's versifying.

不过,研究另一个人的版本是一种有趣的生活方式。