When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so.

  • -- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 利希滕贝格

当一个熟人经过我身边时,我常常从窗口退后一步,与其说是为了让他不费力地向我打招呼,还不如说是为了不让自己尴尬地看到他并没有这样做。

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We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our heart of hearts we are well assured that the truth which has made us free, will in the end make us glad also.

我们只承认一个动机,那就是跟随我们所知道的真理,无论真理将我们带到何处;但在我们的内心深处,我们确信使我们自由的真理,最终也会使我们快乐。

I've always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor.

我一直养活自己。我喜欢那种确切知道自己经济状况的感觉,但我内心深处渴望有一位身披闪亮盔甲的骑士。

One never comes into embarrassment, if one is ready to balance. To ask oneself never in embarrassment, what have you in these decades made.

一个人永远不会陷入尴尬,如果他准备好平衡。要问自己从来没有在尴尬中,你在这几十年里做了什么。

I'm not really a Sundance baby, but they helped me so much I feel I have to acknowledge it.

我不是一个真正的圣丹斯宝贝,但他们帮了我很多,我觉得我必须承认这一点。

I was fine when it came to cheering up others, not so fine with myself.

当我要让别人高兴起来的时候,我很好,但对自己就不那么好了。

To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.

令我尴尬的是,我出生在一位女士的床上。