You should never assume contempt for that which it is not very manifest that you have it in your power to possess, nor does a wit ever make a more contemptible figure than when, in attempting satire, he shows that he does not understand that which he would make the subject of his ridicule.

  • -- Lord Melbourne 墨尔本勋爵

你永远不应该假定对它不是很明显,在你拥有力量,智慧也不做一个更可鄙的图相比,在尝试讽刺,他表明,他不明白,他会让他嘲笑的对象。

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encourage them to do is to understand that there's inflation and growth. It can go higher and lower and to have four different portfolios essentially that make up your entire portfolio that gets you balanced.

鼓励他们这样做是为了让他们明白存在通货膨胀和经济增长。它可以变高,也可以变低,有四种不同的投资组合组成了你的整个投资组合,使你达到平衡。

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

我宁愿做真实的自己,即使冒着招致他人嘲笑的危险,也不愿做虚假的自己,招致自己的憎恶。

Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and linear causality.

我们每个人都能显化超越空间、时间和线性因果关系的意识场的属性。

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

死后被人怀念,不过是对活着时被人轻视的可怜的补偿。

You know, I think it's one of those cases where the situation really does dictate your level of ridicule.

你知道,我认为这是一种情况真的决定了你嘲笑的程度。

This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.

这只会使我的收入太低,不会引起嫉妒,不会引起轻蔑。

People who know me and get to know me understand what I'm about.

认识我的人,了解我的人,了解我的人,了解我的人。

To try to fix the future is a manifest absurdity.

试图改变未来是一种明显的荒谬。