Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.

  • -- Lionel Trilling 特里林

每一种神经症都是一种原始的法律程序,在这种程序中,被告进行起诉,作出判决并执行判决:所有这些都是为了不让其他人执行同样的程序。

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I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.

我有三种恐惧症,如果我能消除它们,它们会使我的生活像十四行诗一样流畅,但又像排水沟里的水一样枯燥:我讨厌睡觉,我讨厌起床,我讨厌一个人呆着。

Indeed upon much that may have to say, I expect rather the charitable judgment than the full assent of those whose approbation I could most wish to win.

的确,我有许多话要说,我希望得到的是宽宏大量的评判,而不是我最希望赢得的那些人的充分赞同。

One single vision fills all minds: that of our independence endangered. One single duty imposes itself upon our wills: the duty of stubborn resistance.

所有人心中只有一个愿景:我们的独立受到威胁。有一项责任强加给我们的意志:顽强抵抗的责任。

The judgment means a lot. As a journalist being accused of invading someone's privacy, there is always a risk that it will stick to your name.

这一判决意义重大。作为一名记者,如果被指控侵犯他人隐私,你的名字就有被曝光的风险。

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.

经典只是原始文学。它们与原始机械、原始音乐和原始医学属于同一类。

To be accused of 'channeling' is to be dismissed as a ventriloquist's live dummy, derogated at not having a mind of one's own.

如果被指控“通灵”,就会被当作口技演员的真人秀节目而不予理会,因为没有自己的想法而受到嘲笑。

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place.

如果法律能够为自己说话,他们首先会抱怨律师。

Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.

进步不仅给未来带来了新的可能性,而且带来了新的限制。

As a rule lawyers tend to want to do whatever they can to win.

一般来说,律师想要做任何他们能做的事情来赢得官司。

I am the primitive of the method I have invented.

我是我发明的方法的原始人。

I have been accused of never saying no.

我一直被指责从不说“不”。