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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A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

一连串兴奋的、转瞬即逝的、杂七杂八的快乐不是幸福;幸福存在于想象的反思和判断中,当一个人的生活,或人类生活的画面,真实的过去或现在,满足了意志,并被欣然接受。

The provocation with Holmes is the fact that he's described by Doyle as a man without a heart - all brain... and that's very difficult to play, or even indicate.

让福尔摩斯恼火的是,道尔把他描述成一个没有心脏——全是大脑的人……这很难演奏,甚至很难表现出来。

An interest in ideas is a sign of human life. People are fascinated by what the future is going to be - and the future is going to be an accumulation of ideas.

对思想的兴趣是人类生活的标志。人们被未来所吸引,而未来将是思想的积累。

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

一颗对逆境做好准备的心,在逆境中充满希望,在顺境中害怕命运的改变。