As to judging our own time, and thereby gaining some basis for a judgment of future possibilities, we are doubtless not only too close to it to appraise it but too much formed by it and enclosed within it to do so.

  • -- Emily Greene Balch 鲍尔奇

关于判断我们自己的时间,从而为判断未来的可能性获得一些基础,我们无疑不仅太接近时间而无法对其进行评价,而且由时间所形成的、包含在时间之内的东西太多而无法对其进行评价。

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My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage.

我希望我能从我的经历中汲取有益的东西,并将它们进一步推演到我不熟悉的领域。我只是不知道我的判断会有什么不同。但我承认会有一些是基于我的性别和我的拉丁血统。

But it's like the horror of being in a studio with a blank canvas. I used to always run out of ideas because there are so many possibilities and I would just think, well what am I going to do now!

但这就像在一个空白画布的工作室里的恐惧。我以前总是走投无路,因为有那么多的可能性,我会想,好吧,我现在要做什么!

I don't think of myself predicting things. I'm expressing possibilities. Things that could happen. To a large extent it's a question of how badly people want them to.

我不认为自己能预测事情。我表达的可能性。可能发生的事情。在很大程度上,这是一个人们多么希望他们这样做的问题。

There is a common theme, though, in the stories I have told, which are usually associations of characters or families that are formed outside of a family circle.

不过,在我讲过的故事中,有一个共同的主题,那就是人物或家庭之间的联系,通常是在一个家庭圈子之外形成的。

When I was a kid, my friends and I formed a band, Trombone Shorty's Brass Band. When I was six, I was a bandleader for my brother's band.

当我还是个孩子的时候,我和我的朋友组成了一个乐队,长号短的铜管乐队。当我六岁的时候,我是我哥哥乐队的乐队指挥。

When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.

当人们要求时间时,总是时间说不。是的,里面还有一个字母,但是说出来并不需要一半的时间。

If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often.

如果你每天跌倒七十次,你要站起来七十次,然后回到神那里,这样你就不会经常跌倒。

The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.

为自己作判断劳苦的人,实在太少了。