This was the first day of our beginning to take up plants: we had much pleasure in collecting them for the natives offered their assistance and perfectly understood the method of taking them up and pruning them.

  • -- William Bligh 布莱

这是我们开始种植植物的第一天:我们很高兴收集它们,因为当地人提供了他们的帮助,并完全了解如何把它们拿起来修剪。

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When gasoline and rubber are rationed, electric power and transport facilities are becoming increasingly scarce, and manpower shortages are developing, it is difficult for people to understand their increased use for other than the most vital needs of war.

当汽油和橡胶实行配给,电力和运输设施日益稀少,人力短缺日益严重时,人们很难理解,除了战争最重要的需要之外,汽油和橡胶越来越多地用于其他用途。

Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really  mean anything.

生活是由微小的快乐组成的。幸福是由那些微小的成功组成的。大地震来的太不频繁了。如果你不把这些小的成功都收集起来,那么大的成功就没有任何意义。

The use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When we think well, we feel good. Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.

恰当地运用我们的智慧能给我们带来快乐。在这方面,大脑就像肌肉。当我们想得好的时候,我们感觉很好。理解是一种狂喜。

I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet.

我相信任何一个有共同理解的人,通过文化、关心、注意和劳动,都能使自己成为除伟大诗人之外他所喜欢的任何人。