We think we have to work because the advertising industry has elevated wants into needs. The newspapers and the television batter us incessantly with the latest 'must-haves', whether that's shoes, videogames or patio heaters. As a result, mums think they 'have' to work at Tesco in order to buy expensive trainers.

  • -- Tom Hodgkinson 汤姆·霍奇金森

我们认为我们必须工作,因为广告业已经把需求提升为需求。报纸和电视不断地向我们提供最新的“必需品”,无论是鞋子、电子游戏还是户外取暖器。因此,妈妈们认为她们“必须”在乐购工作,才能买到昂贵的运动鞋。

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My message going forward is that I want to remind everyone in the aviation industry - especially those who manage aviation companies and those who regulate aviation - that we owe it to our passengers to keep learning how to do it better.

我接下来要传达的信息是,我想提醒航空业的每一个人,尤其是那些管理航空公司和监管航空的人,我们有责任让我们的乘客不断学习如何做得更好。

No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.

无论在科学上还是在实际生活中,没有什么比认为方法和勤奋可以弥补缺乏天赋的观念更大的错觉了。

Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence.

医学是唯一一种不断努力破坏其存在理由的职业。

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

婚姻必须不断地与一个吞噬一切的怪物斗争:熟悉。