Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.

  • -- Walter Horatio Pater 佩特

这样的讨论对我们欣赏艺术或诗歌的优秀作品帮助甚微,无法区分它们的优劣,也无法使用诸如“美”、“卓越”、“艺术”、“诗歌”等词汇,而这些词汇的含义比它们原本的含义更为精确。

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If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

如果一个人有好玉米、好木头、好木板、好猪可以卖,或者比任何人都能做得更好的椅子、刀子、坩埚或教堂的器官,你会发现一条通往他家的宽阔的、不易走的路,尽管这条路是在树林里。

Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening.

在这短暂的霜冻和烈日当空的日子里,不要在我们周围的人身上每时每刻都有一种激情洋溢的态度,不要在他们才华横溢的时候,在他们的人生道路上有一种悲凉的分裂,不要在黄昏前入睡。

I always wondered if I was supposed to be excellent at something or not. I think, because of that, I have a lot of insecurities about myself.

我总是在想我是否应该在某件事上很优秀。我想,正因为如此,我对自己有很多不安全感。

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

礼物的卓越之处不在于它的价值,而在于它的恰当。

But I do have time to pencil in golf, and we've got four excellent courses.

但是我有时间打高尔夫球,而且我们有四门很好的课程。

Silver, gold - I don't discriminate! I like sparkly things.

白银,黄金——我不歧视!我喜欢亮闪闪的东西。