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Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.

  • -- Christopher Fry 克里斯托弗·弗莱

诗歌的优点是能够在一半的时间里说两倍于散文的话，缺点是，如果你没有把全部的注意力放在诗歌上，那么你似乎在两倍的时间里说了一半的话。

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But if we have been willing to give our lives to this enterprise, which is for the honour of our country, I appeal to our countrymen to see that those who depend on us are properly cared for.

但是，如果我们愿意为这项事业献出我们的生命，这是为了我们国家的荣誉，我呼吁我国同胞看到依赖我们的人得到适当的照顾。

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Words are powerful. Words make a difference. They can create and destroy. They can open doors and close doors. Words can create illusion or magic, love or destruction. … All those things.

语言的力量很强大。语言决定一切。他们可以创造和毁灭。他们可以开门和关门。语言可以创造幻觉或魔法，爱或毁灭。所有这些。

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I was listening to all those lyrics and trying to take in everything that was happening. I was completely excited. It was one of the greatest times that I had listening to music.

我听着那些歌词，试着去理解发生的一切。我非常兴奋。那是我听音乐最美妙的时光之一。

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I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet.

我相信任何一个有共同理解的人，通过文化、关心、注意和劳动，都能使自己成为除伟大诗人之外他所喜欢的任何人。

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I appreciate the fact, and am proud of it, that the attentions I am receiving are intended more for our country than for me personally.

我感谢并为之自豪的是，我受到的关注更多地是为了我们的国家，而不是我个人。

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To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.

对于一个优越的种族，作为人类对超凡圣洁和美德的自命不凡，似乎……荒谬。

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After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.

在最后一个“不”之后，会有一个“是”，在这个“是”之上，世界的未来就悬在那里。

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My mother was pretty much on my case all the time.

我母亲一直在为我操心。

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The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.

只有美德的回报才可靠。

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You give before you get.

先予后得。

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