'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.

  • -- Euripides 欧里庇得斯

“那只是我的舌头,”发誓的不是我的灵魂。

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My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him on the grass. But it was astonishing how slow old people were. Some of them could not run up a hill and called it trying to climb stairs.

然而,我的父亲可以跑得更快。在草地上与他竞争是不可能的。但令人惊讶的是,老年人竟如此迟钝。他们中的一些人跑不上小山,叫它爬楼梯。

We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

我们常常以为自己是忘恩负义,而实际上我们是自爱。