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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I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.

我喜欢把假期比作孩子听自己喜欢的故事。快乐在于故事以熟悉的方式开始,期待熟悉的转折,熟悉的悬念时刻,熟悉的高潮和结局。

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill-will.

善意之人的肤浅理解比恶意之人的绝对误解更令人沮丧。

No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.

饮水者所作的诗,没有一句能长久,也不能长久。

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

如果一个人不了解一个人,他往往会认为他是一个傻瓜。