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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Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.

诗歌是一种普遍的语言,它使人的心灵与自然和自身融为一体。一个轻视诗歌的人,不可能对自己或其他任何东西有太多的尊重。

There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.

如果一位将军无论如何都能表现出他的最佳能力,那么他所领导的人就会轻视他,这是没有什么风险的。

It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community.

它从我背上滚下来。嘲笑没有任何意义——即使是来自那些你应该带着护膝的人,比如科学界。

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。

I don't think you understand what a job really is when you're a teenager.

我觉得当你还是个十几岁的孩子的时候,你不明白工作到底是什么。

Suburban houses and tin sheds are often the objects of ridicule.

郊区的房屋和锡棚常常成为人们嘲笑的对象。

To try to fix the future is a manifest absurdity.

试图改变未来是一种明显的荒谬。

To understand is to forgive, even oneself.

理解就是原谅,甚至原谅自己。