In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action - you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things.

  • -- Eli Stanley Jones 伊莱·斯坦利·琼斯

在皈依过程中,你并不主要依附于一种秩序、一种制度、一种运动、一套信仰或一套行动准则——你主要依附于一个人,其次是依附于这些东西。

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The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under commercial pressure, perhaps, into a different kind of purpose, which is to divert and distract and entertain.

新闻机构的根本目的是教育和提供信息,甚至有人可能会说,是提高新闻水平。但在商业压力下,新闻机构的整个理念或许已经转变为另一种目的,那就是转移人们的注意力和娱乐。

Historically, royal families have represented an institution. The institution is built on heritage, and is timeless in that sense.

从历史上看,皇室家族代表着一种制度。该机构建立在遗产的基础上,在这个意义上是永恒的。

You know she not gonna be worrying 'bout things from the past. Hardly recollecting and then she'll go to noontime mass.

你知道她不会担心过去的事情。几乎想不起来了,然后她要去中午弥撒。

Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.

只有当你要在书中说出你永远不敢对任何人吐露的事情时,你才会写书。

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

有些想法大错特错,只有非常聪明的人才会相信它们。

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

有新想法的人在其想法实现之前是个怪人。