This is just what I have thought when I have seen slaves at work - they seem to go through the motions of labor without putting strength into them. They keep their powers in reserve for their own use at night, perhaps.

  • -- Frederick Law Olmsted 弗雷德里克·劳·奥姆斯特德

这正是我看到奴隶在工作时的想法——他们似乎在做着没有力气的劳动。它们把自己的力量储存起来,也许在晚上自己使用。

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The thing about stand-ups is you can't really get good unless you're failing in front of a large number of people. That makes stand-up comedy unique: you need a tremendous amount of reserve within you to take the rejection from the audience, and without it, you can't do anything.

单口相声的问题是,除非你在很多人面前失败,否则你不可能真正做好。这使得单口喜剧独一无二:你需要内心有巨大的储备来接受观众的拒绝,没有它,你什么也做不了。

Accordingly, since nothing prevents the earth from moving, I suggest that we should now consider also whether several motions suit it, so that it can be regarded as one of the planets. For, it is not the center of all the revolutions.

因此,既然没有什么能阻止地球运动,我建议我们现在也应该考虑几个运动是否适合它,这样它就可以被看作是行星之一。因为,它不是所有革命的中心。

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

所有的思想都必须直接或间接地通过某些特性,最终与直观联系起来,因此与我们联系起来,与感性联系起来,因为没有别的方法可以把一个对象给予我们。

I don't want to be thought of as a survivor because you have to continue getting involved in difficult situations to show off that particular gift, and I'm not interested in doing that anymore.

我不想被认为是一个幸存者,因为你必须继续陷入困境,才能展示你的天赋,而我对此已经不感兴趣了。

If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.

如果最伟大的上帝是所有运动加起来的静止,那么我们就不可避免地要包括在内。

I would always reserve a special place in my heart for Pittsburgh.

我将永远在心中为匹兹堡保留一个特别的位置。