I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted with our comparative success in country churches.

  • -- George Edmund Street 斯特里特设计事务所

我想,与我们在乡村教会所取得的相对成功相比,我们在建设具有鲜明特色的优秀城镇教会方面的失败,一定经常给你们和我这样的人留下深刻的印象。

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You find that all men are successes or failures. Success is the stamp of truth. I will say all men who fail to place their feet on the dome of facts do so by not sieving all truth and throwing the faulty to one side.

你发现所有的人都是成功或失败的。成功是真理的印记。我想说的是,所有未能立足于事实之穹的人,都是这样做的:他们没有筛去所有的真相,也没有把错误抛到一边。

We would prefer to see the House run by a philistine with the requisite financial acumen than by the succession of opera and ballet lovers who have brought a great and valuable institution to its knees.

我们宁愿看到一个有必要的财务头脑的庸人来管理这座房子,也不愿看到一个接一个的歌剧和芭蕾爱好者把一个伟大而宝贵的机构拖垮。

Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church.

没有人看到明显的,没有人观察普通的。一平方码土地上的奇迹比教堂里所有的寓言都要多。

When I was growing up, I'd be in the choir. My mum was the organist in the church, so I'd sing in the church.

当我长大的时候,我会加入唱诗班。我妈妈是教堂的管风琴手,所以我会在教堂里唱歌。

I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.

我一直是个性格演员。我看起来就像小红帽。

At Harvard I was in charge of the comparative anatomy labs.

在哈佛,我负责比较解剖学实验室。

I'm a character actor.

我是一个性格演员。