The rule which should guide us in such cases is simple and obvious enough: that the aggregate testimony of our neighbours is subject to the same conditions as the testimony of any one of them.

  • -- William Kingdon Clifford 威廉·金顿·克利福德

在这种情况下,指导我们的规则是简单而明显的:我们邻国的全部证词与任何一个邻国的证词一样,都必须符合同样的条件。

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In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.

写作时,一般来说,把你写的每一个字都用笔写一遍;你不知道它会给你的风格带来多大的活力。

The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbors.

我们应该像爱自己一样爱邻居的训诫,对我们同样意味着我们应该像爱邻居一样爱自己。

Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

每当我们邻居的房子着火时,我们自己的引擎就会发动一点,这是不会错的。

The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.

雕刻的规则适用于批评;能用勺子切东西,切莫用刀。