I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense. There was this idea in the town that if something was European it would be good.

  • -- Sarah Vaughan 莎拉·沃恩

我没有任何学术背景,但我住在一个大学城,我认识一些人,他们并非没有伪装。镇上有个想法,如果是欧洲的东西就好了。

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My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from college. As parents, they focused on education, but did not stop at academics - they made sure that we knew music, saw art and theatre and traveled - even though it meant budgeting like crazy.

我的父母从很小的时候开始,他们是家里唯一的大学毕业生。作为父母,他们专注于教育,但并不止步于学术——他们确保我们了解音乐,观看艺术和戏剧,旅行——即使这意味着疯狂的预算。

Oversimplification is now a common term of reproach in academic discussions; everyone is against oversimplification. But there is no parallel term nearly as frequently used to describe the opposite phenomenon, which surely occurs as often, if not more so.

如今,在学术讨论中,过分简单化是一个常见的指责用语;每个人都反对过于简单化。但是,几乎没有一个平行术语像它那样频繁地用于描述相反的现象,而相反的现象即使没有发生得更多,也肯定会发生得同样频繁。

Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience.

幸运的是,我总是带着一本书去旅行,以防我不得不排队等圣诞老人,或者其他一些不便。

Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

在你所处的地方,尽你的一点绵薄之力;正是这些美好的点点滴滴汇聚在一起,征服了这个世界。

Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

他知道我爱我的书,就从我自己的图书馆里给了我许多书,这些书比我的公爵领地还要珍贵。

It is good news, worthy of all acceptation; and yet not too good to be true.

这是个好消息,完全值得人们接受;但也不是好得令人难以置信。