Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the governor and his son, who were profuse in their attentions, that I was in earnest.

  • -- Sir Richard Francis Burton 家伯顿爵士

旅人就像诗人一样,多半是一种愤怒的民族。我每天都要大发雷霆,向总督和他的儿子证明我是认真的,他们对我殷勤备至。

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The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

如果他们停止互相帮助,人类就会灭亡。没有相互帮助,我们就不能生存。因此,所有需要援助的人都有权向他们的同胞要求援助;有权柄赐给人的,没有一个人能不怀罪恶感地拒绝。

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

诗人所讲的伟大而明智的事情,他们自己也不明白。

I've been spared to a large extent the business end of the race stick.

在很大程度上,我在比赛的最后阶段得以幸免。

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

不成熟的诗人模仿;成熟的诗人偷窃。