So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

  • -- Alexander Pope 亚历山大·波普

艺术是如此博大,人类的智慧是如此狭隘。

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My plays are for the kind of black people who relate to funk music, to Parliament-Funkadelic. When those guys get out of a spaceship - the idea that black people are from outer space, there's a poetic truth to that. We are this vast people.

我的剧本是写给那些喜欢放克音乐的黑人的,属于议会放克乐派。当这些人走出宇宙飞船——黑人来自外太空的想法,有一个诗意的真理。我们是如此广大的人民。

It is our task to inquire into the causes that have brought about the observed differentiation, and to investigate the sequence of events that have led to the establishment of the multifarious forms of human life.

我们的任务是探究引起所观察到的分化的原因,并调查导致人类生活的多种形式形成的一系列事件。

Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, and pass themselves by.

人们到国外去欣赏高山、大海的汹涌澎湃、河流的汹涌澎湃、海洋的罗盘和星星的运行轨迹,然后就从那里经过了。

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.

如果你能在别人失去理智、责备你的时候保持理智。世界将属于你,世界上的一切都将属于你,更重要的是,你将成为一个男子汉,我的孩子。

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

动物所处的时代比人类聪明;但是他们的智慧局限于一些细节,而且局限在一个非常狭窄的范围内。

I get to choose things that interest me as opposed to trying to get any job that will have me, which for a vast majority of actors is the case.

我可以选择自己感兴趣的东西,而不是去找任何一份让我感兴趣的工作,而对绝大多数演员来说,这是事实。

If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.

如果你的信仰与经验相悖,与人类的学习和探索相悖,那么它就不值得你用呼吸来表达它。

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.

她善于引用别人的话,这是机智的有力替代品。

Disinformation is most effective in a very narrow context.

虚假信息在非常狭窄的背景下是最有效的。

Analysis is soul of thought and ghost of wit.

分析是思想的灵魂,智慧的幽灵。

Men are only as loyal as their options.

男人的忠诚取决于他们的选择。