There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

  • -- Samuel Johnson 塞缪尔·约翰逊

先生,对于人类这种渺小的生物来说,没有什么是微不足道的。正是通过研究小事情,我们获得了尽可能少的痛苦和尽可能多的幸福的伟大艺术。

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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

我们暂时收留孩子;我们与人类生活在一起;就这些。我们不欠他们什么,他们也不欠我们什么。我认为我们欠朋友的更多,尤其是女性朋友。

Of all the problems which were open to me for study, typhus was the most urgent and the most unexplored. We knew nothing of the way in which contagion spread.

在我研究的所有问题中,斑疹伤寒是最紧迫的,也是最未被探索的。我们对传染的方式一无所知。

You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.

你必须吃点东西,在你的生活中有一点爱,然后你才能坚持任何该死的身体说教如何表现。

It was dreadful. They tried to put the little redhead in a cage.

这是可怕的。他们试图把小红发放进笼子里。