I have been an "Official" all my life, without the least turn for it. I never could attain a true official manner, which is highly artificial and handles trifles with ludicrously disproportionate gravity.

  • -- William Allingham 阿林厄姆

我一生都是一个“官员”,没有一点机会。我从来没有获得过一种真正的官方态度,这种态度是高度人为的,处理小事的时候严肃得可笑。

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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

每一个艺术家的目标都是通过人为的手段来捕捉运动,也就是生命,并把它固定住,这样一百年后,当一个陌生人看到它时,它又动了起来,因为这就是生命。

All research scientists know that writing in the passive voice is artificial; they are not disembodied observers, but people doing research.

所有从事研究的科学家都知道,用被动语态写作是人为的;他们不是没有实体的观察者,而是做研究的人。

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

有两种自由——一种是错误的,一个人可以自由地做他喜欢做的事;在真理中,他可以自由地做他应该做的事。

I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.

我认为一个人原则上一年至少应该喝醉两次,这样他就不会因此而沾沾自喜了。

True love is like ghosts, Which everybody talks about and few have seen.

真爱就像鬼,人人都在谈论,却很少有人见过。

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

清醒的头脑在艺术上是最没用的。