Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

  • -- John Lubbock 卢伯克

休息不是懒惰,夏天有时躺在树下的草地上,听着潺潺的流水声,或看着云朵飘过天空,这绝不是浪费时间。

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Listening to what people were saying wasn't even important. But it was important to look as if you were listening to what people were saying. Actually, listening to what people are saying, to me, interferes with looking as if you were listening to what people are saying.

听别人说什么甚至不重要。但重要的是要让自己看起来像是在听别人说话。实际上,在我看来,听别人说话会妨碍你看起来像在听别人说话一样。

I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later.

我曾经在食品问题上做过很多工作,每次有人预测产量会不足,一两年后他们就会感到难堪。

The reason we have such a reform budget is because we've been thinking about these things for a long time.

我们有这样一个改革预算的原因是因为我们已经考虑这些事情很长时间了。

Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all.

大多数时候我没有太多的乐趣。其余的时间我一点也不开心。

Listening is the only way to entertain some folks.

倾听是取悦某些人的唯一方法。

You push the button, we do the rest.

你按下这个按钮,我们来做其余的事。