Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.

  • -- Max Beerbohm 比尔博姆

只有平庸才能被相信永远处于最佳状态。

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There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!

有些事情平庸是不能容忍的:诗歌、音乐、绘画、公众的雄辩。听一篇冷冰冰的演讲被人浮夸地大肆抨击,或者听一篇二流的诗歌被人说成全是拙劣诗人的夸夸其谈,这是多么折磨人啊!

Manners come down to a single principle, talk of nothing that might actually prove interesting.

礼貌可以归结为一个原则,不谈任何可能被证明是有趣的事情。

Marines either know how to use an iron or they get married. The iron is less dangerous.

海军陆战队要么知道如何使用熨斗,要么就结婚。铁不那么危险。

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

平庸之辈只知自身的价值,而天才却能立即识别天才。