Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

  • -- Benjamin Disraeli 本杰明·迪斯雷利

现在,礼貌是容易的,生活是困难的。

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In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known.

因此,在一种极其平等和美德的状态下,在一种纯粹和简单的礼仪占主导地位的情况下,人类的增长显然将远远超过迄今所知的任何增长。

Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street, you've got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can't pass one person.

礼貌是关键。比如说,当你长大了,走在大街上,你要告诉每个人早上好。每一个人。你不能超过一个人。

We didn't have a TV in the living room and all my friends thought we were kind of weird. When they'd come over, my mom wanted to talk to them about current events.

我们家客厅里没有电视,我所有的朋友都觉得我们有点怪。当他们来的时候,我妈妈想和他们聊聊时事。

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that fits all cases.

适合一个人的鞋会夹住另一个人;没有适合所有情况的生活秘诀。

I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that.

我也相信,很难相信没有人不相信这一点。

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

我们混淆了自由和安逸。

I love a good play, but they're too hard to find.

我喜欢好剧本,但是太难找了。

The joke or the pratfall is easy for me to do.

对我来说,这个笑话或失态很容易做到。