Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

  • -- Mark Twain 马克·吐温

首先获得事实,然后你可以随意歪曲它们。

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I knew the wild riders and the vacant land were about to vanish forever... and the more I considered the subject, the bigger the forever loomed. Without knowing how to do it, I began to record some facts around me, and the more I looked the more the panorama unfolded.

我知道那些野蛮的骑手和空地将永远消失……我越想这个问题,永远的阴影就越深。不知道该怎么做,我开始记录周围的一些事实,我看得越多,全景就展现得越多。

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

相信我,老年是一件美好而愉快的事情。诚然,你被轻轻地推下了舞台,但随后你作为观众得到了一个如此舒适的前排座位。

It is troublesome sometimes when people get up in your face in public, you know? And say, 'How could you, how dare you?' Well, they don't know me.

有时候人们当着你的面出现在公共场合是很麻烦的,你知道吗?然后说,‘你怎么能,你怎么敢?“嗯,他们不认识我。

I think probation would have been a more appropriate sentence. I don't think the facts of this case call out for a period of incarceration.

我认为缓刑会更合适。我认为这个案件的事实不适合监禁一段时间。

Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.

统计学家的定义:一个人相信数据不会说谎,但他承认,在分析中,有些数据也站不住脚。

At first it was exhilarating but when I realized it wasn't going away, it became scary and claustrophobic. Fame is a weird thing.

一开始很兴奋,但当我意识到它不会消失时,它变得可怕和幽闭恐怖。名声是一件奇怪的事情。

I'm mistake for a flirt when i'm friendly, a bitch when i'm blunt, shy when i'm Quiet. You just can't please everyone.

我友善的时候会被误认为是调情者,直率的时候会被误认为是泼妇,安静的时候会被误认为是害羞者。你不可能取悦所有人。

Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.

绘画,n。字体保护平坦表面不受天气影响,并将其暴露给评论家的艺术。

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

如果某样东西因为你而活在别人身上,那么你就接近了不朽。

All I can ask from society is that it please stop telling me why I should like sports.

我对社会所能要求的就是请停止告诉我为什么我应该喜欢运动。

When you get a cute text and you just sit there and smile like an idiot.

当你收到一条可爱的短信,你只是坐在那里,像个傻瓜一样微笑。

The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second.

第一个情人在没有第二个情人的时候,可以维持很长一段时间。

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

中年是你的年龄开始在你的中年左右显现的时候。

So, Blair keep your England, and let me keep my Zimbabwe.

布莱尔,留下你的英格兰,让我留下我的津巴布韦。

The right can distort anything it wants.

右派可以歪曲任何它想要的东西。