The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.

  • -- Oscar Wilde 奥斯卡王尔德

这出戏很成功,但观众却是一场灾难。

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It is true I had been successful on a small scale in overcoming one of the main difficulties in the new process, but there was still much to invent, and much that at that period I necessarily knew nothing about.

的确,我在小范围内克服了新进程中的一个主要困难,并取得了成功,但仍有许多东西需要发明,而在那个时期,我必然对许多东西一无所知。

Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job.

诗歌要求人们要有价值观,形成观点,除了赚钱和工作上的成功,还要关心其他的一些经验。

We do not go (to the theatre) like our ancestors, to escape from the pressure of reality, so much as to confirm our experience of it.

我们不像我们的祖先那样去(剧院),是为了逃避现实的压力,甚至是为了证实我们对现实的体验。

With the collapse of vaudeville new talent has no place to stink.

随着歌舞杂耍的崩溃,新的人才已经无处容身。