What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

  • -- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward 伊丽莎白·斯图尔特·菲尔普斯病房

拥有明确目标的力量是对生活的巨大力量。一个人的声音、衣着、表情、动作,决定和改变着他或她开始有理由地生活。

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We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

我们称失去父亲的人为孤儿;一个失去妻子的鳏夫。但是,这个人知道失去朋友的巨大痛苦,我们用什么名字称呼他呢?在这里,每一种语言都是沉默的,在无能为力中保持着平静。

Between Scott on the earlier side and Dickens and Thackeray on the other, there was an immense production of novels, illustrated by not a few names which should rank high in the second class, while some would promote more than one of them to the first.

在早期的史考特和狄更斯、萨克雷之间,有大量的小说作品,其中不少小说的名字应该排在第二类小说的前列,而有些则会把其中不止一个提升到第一类。