Praise borrowed from ancestors is but very sorry praise.

从祖先那里借来的赞美是非常遗憾的赞美。

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I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.

我现在活在借来的时间里,在接待室里等待那不可避免的召唤。然后——我接着做下一件事,不管它是什么。幸运的是,人们不必为此烦恼。

How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians.

当莎士比亚从旁门旁道或庸俗的历史学家那里借用小环境时,他是多么懂得如何改善和提升小环境。

Maybe my caveman ancestors invented the wheel or something. I'm not sure.

也许是我穴居人的祖先发明了轮子什么的。我不确定。

I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors.

我认为这些人背叛或忘记了他们的祖先。

Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.

很多人知道如何奉承,很少有人知道如何赞美。

Praise makes a bad man worse.

表扬使坏人更坏。