Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.

  • -- Franz Kafka 卡夫卡

让我提醒你一句古老的格言:被怀疑的人比平静的人更容易行动,因为平静的时候,他们可能会不知不觉地坐在天平上,与他们的罪恶一起被衡量。

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How often one reads a contemporary full-length novel and thinks quietly, mutinously, that it would have worked out better at half or a third the length.

有多少次,一个人在读一本当代的长篇小说时,会不动声色地、反叛地想,要是能读到一半或三分之一的篇幅就更好了。

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.

有多少事情是我们可以好好考虑的,我们是否应该更好地了解它们。

I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion.

我不知道如何为自己辩护:惊讶的天真无法想象受到怀疑。

When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.

当很多人找不到工作时,就会导致失业。

A spirit of suspicion is not the gift of discernment.

怀疑的精神不是明辨是非的天赋。

People don't buy from clowns.

人们不会从小丑那里买东西。