Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.

  • -- William Empson 燕卜荪

法律把人的短处看得很重。

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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.

人们到国外去,对高山的高度、大海的巨浪、河流的长流、浩瀚的海洋的罗盘、星星的圆周运动感到惊奇,而他们自己却毫不惊奇地走过了。

Amnesty is a big billboard, a flashing billboard, to the rest of the world that we don't really mean our immigration law.

大赦国际是一个巨大的广告牌,一个闪烁的广告牌,对世界其他地方来说,我们并不是指我们的移民法。

If you ain't thinkin' about man and God and law, then you ain't thinkin' about nothin'.

如果你不去想人、上帝和法律,那你就什么都不想。

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

我死后,我宁愿有人问我为什么没有纪念碑,也不愿有人问我为什么有纪念碑。