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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The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of goods, but as people being unwilling to part with something which might earn a regular income in exchange for those goods.

世界正在遭受买主短缺之苦,这是很容易理解的,这不是因为人们不希望拥有货物,而是因为人们不愿意放弃可以赚取固定收入的东西来换取这些货物。

For the rational, psychologically healthy man, the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic, the desire for pleasure is the desire to escape from reality.

对于理性的、心理健康的人来说,对快乐的渴望就是庆祝自己控制了现实的渴望。对神经质的人来说,对快乐的渴望就是对现实的逃避。

We shall see but little way if we require to understand what we see. How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding! How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile!

如果我们要求了解我们所看到的东西,我们将看不到什么。一个人能用他的理解力来衡量多少事情啊!在这期间,他会看到多少更伟大的事情啊!

Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former.

当然,工作和娱乐可以很容易地结合在一起,但应该存在一定的平衡,而后者不应该凌驾于前者之上。