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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

  • -- W. Somerset Maugham 威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆

引用的能力是智慧的有效替代品。

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I never really was that passionate about playing sports. But when I was at this Mt. Herman school, I did have the ability to throw the frisbee. So when this sport evolved, it was fun because I was good at it.

我从来没有对运动那么有激情。但是当我在赫尔曼山学校的时候，我确实有能力扔飞盘。所以当这项运动发展起来的时候，它很有趣，因为我擅长这项运动。

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Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized.

电子邮件、即时通讯和手机给了我们惊人的沟通能力，但因为我们生活和工作在自己的小世界里，这种沟通完全没有条理。

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To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural processes.

实际上，征服自然就是消除一切自然障碍和人类准则，用人为的、捏造的等价物来代替自然过程。

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I was a good-looking kid. I never felt, like, dorky. I was just like, 'Yup, these are my braces. I've had them forever.'

我是个漂亮的孩子。我从来没有觉得自己很傻。我只是说，‘是的，这是我的牙套。我永远拥有它们。”

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Anytime you've played in a place and you get a win against your old team, it feels good.

任何时候，只要你在一个地方打过球，并且赢了老东家，你就会感觉很好。

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Marriage is no substitute for political experience.

婚姻不能代替政治经验。

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