Literature is not an abstract science, to which exact definitions can be applied. It is an Art rather, the success of which depends on personal persuasiveness, on the author’s skill to give as on ours to receive.

  • -- Arthur Quiller-Couch 亚瑟·奎勒枯赤

文学不是一门可以应用精确定义的抽象科学。这是一门艺术,它的成功取决于个人的说服力,取决于作者给予的技巧,也取决于我们接受的技巧。

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It is an absolutely unique success of the church community to have introduced such an epoch-making change, in just a few years, without having a serious division.

教会在短短几年内,在没有严重分裂的情况下,推行了这样一项划时代的改革,这绝对是教会的独特成功。

Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

失败只是没有成功的存在。但一场惨败是一场神话般的灾难。