I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

  • -- Benjamin Franklin 本杰明富兰克林

我不反对从头到尾都过同样的生活:只要求作者有优势,在第二版中改正第一版的错误。

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The basis of drama is... the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he realises that what kept him from it was, in the lesser drama, civilisation and, in the great drama, the discovery of something that he did not set out to discover but which can be seen retrospectively as inevitable.

戏剧的基础是……英雄的斗争结束时对一个具体的目标,他意识到,让他从它是什么,在较小的戏剧,文明,在伟大的戏剧,发现他没有开始发现,但可以看到回顾是不可避免的。

As a consequence of these hesitations and of the vague character of such innovations, the Commission on Human Rights itself had doubts from the beginning about its role and its functions in general.

由于这些犹豫和这种革新的含糊其辞,人权委员会本身从一开始就对其作用和一般职能表示怀疑。

The safest thing to do was get rid of the second breast. I just want to give myself the best chance possible to live.

最安全的方法是去掉第二块乳房。我只是想给自己最好的生活机会。

I can tell you where my Tonys are. They're in a beautiful place in my living room, in a glass cabinet.

我可以告诉你我的托尼在哪里。它们在我客厅的一个漂亮的地方,在一个玻璃柜里。

There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.

有许多值得为之而活的东西,有一些值得为之而死的东西,却没有什么值得为之杀戮的东西。

I'm quite obviously not the world's most handsome man - I'm the second world's most handsome man!

我显然不是世界上最帅的男人——我是世界上第二帅的男人!

Bad men excuse their faults; good men abandon them.

坏人为他们的错误辩解;好人抛弃他们。

The end of a picture is always an end of a life.

一幅画的结束总是生命的结束。

We come to beginnings only at the end.

我们只在最后才开始。

Faults are beauties in a lover's eye.

情人眼里出西施。