If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

  • -- George Eliot 乔治·艾略特

如果我们对人类生活中所有平凡的东西都有敏锐的洞察力,那就像听到草长出来或者松鼠的心跳,我们就会死于那咆哮,那是沉默的另一面。

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Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and appreciation for the warm big heart that dwells within such a rough exterior.

许多代表黑人生活的艺术家只看到了黑人生活滑稽可笑的一面,对居住在如此粗糙外表下的那颗温暖的宽广的心缺乏同情和欣赏。

The investigations which have seemingly been the most purely abstract have often formed the foundation of the most important changes or improvements in the conditions of human life.

似乎是最纯粹抽象的调查往往构成了人类生活条件中最重要的变化或改善的基础。

The heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of goodness and love.

这里一切的心和核心都是好的,无论表面的波浪是什么,在深处和底层的一切,都有一个无限的基础的善良和爱。

In the beginning of the human race there was no genetic load which would cause undesirable traits such as appear in offspring of marriages between relatives today.

在人类的早期,没有任何基因负荷会导致不受欢迎的特征,比如今天亲戚间婚姻的后代。