People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.

  • -- Elizabeth Gaskell 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔

人们认为自己的缺点总是存在于他人的脑海中,就好像他们相信这个世界总是在审视他们个人的魅力和美德一样,他们也可能因此而沾沾自喜。

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What I'm making music for now is more similar to what I was doing in the beginning. In those days it was all about doing music so when people heard it in a club it would take their minds of their worries. I got more artistic but now I've gone back to basics.

我现在做的音乐和我一开始做的很相似。在那些日子里,音乐就是一切,所以当人们在俱乐部里听到音乐时,他们就会把烦恼抛诸脑后。我变得更有艺术感了,但现在我又回到了基础。

There are thousands and thousands of people out there leading lives of quiet, screaming desperation, where they work long, hard hours at jobs they hate to enable them to buy things they don’t need to impress people they don’t like.

有成千上万的人过着平静、绝望的生活,他们长时间、辛苦地做着自己讨厌的工作,为的是能买到自己不需要的东西,给自己不喜欢的人留下深刻印象。

To morrow, I believe, is to be an eclipse of the sun, and I think it perfectly meet and proper that the sun in the heavens, and the glory of the Republic should both go into obscurity and darkness together.

我相信,明天将是日蚀,我认为天空中的太阳和共和国的荣耀将同时消失在黑暗和黑暗中,这是完全合适的。

I don't think we can sit on the fence anymore. We have to make up our minds. And if one wants to choose the path of darkness, then so be it, but be conscious of what it is you're doing.

我认为我们不能再骑墙观望了。我们必须下定决心。如果一个人想选择黑暗之路,那就去吧,但要意识到你在做什么。

The great museums may harbour the conscience for the natural world, not merely provide its catalogue.

伟大的博物馆不仅提供目录,还可能怀有对自然世界的良知。

The World Cup is every four years, so it's going to be a perennial problem.

世界杯每四年举行一次,所以这将是一个长期存在的问题。

I don't believe in overdoing myself.

我不认为自己做得过分。