He was a great thundering paradox of a man.

  • -- William Manchester 威廉·曼彻斯特

他是一个非常自相矛盾的人。

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The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

悖论实际上是理智生活的悲哀之处,正如只有伟大的灵魂才会受到激情的熏陶一样,只有伟大的思想家才会受到我所说的悖论的熏陶。

In the time of battle the hammocs, together with their bedding, are all firmly corded, and fixed in the nettings on the quarter-deck, or whereever the men are too much exposed to the view or fire of the enemy.

在战斗中,吊床和被褥都被牢牢地绑在一起,固定在后甲板上的铁丝网上,或者是那些暴露在敌人视野或炮火下的人。

When a woman like that whom I've seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man.

当一个像我这样见过很多次的女人,突然失去了联系;总是忙忙碌碌,永远也抽不出时间来,那就意味着一个男人。

It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes.

这是一个悖论,当我们向质数伸出手时,我们也看到了质数结束的地方。

If you don't go to other men funerals they won't go to yours.

如果你不去参加别人的葬礼,他们也不会去参加你的。

I am a man for whom the outside world exists.

我是一个拥有外部世界的人。