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It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.

  • -- Washington Irving 华盛顿欧文

使一个破产的人烦恼的与其说是贫穷，还不如说是矫饰——在骄傲的头脑和空虚的钱包之间挣扎——必须很快结束的空虚的表演。

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The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty and people who hold these beliefs with a pretense of certitude.

今天的基本断层线不是不同信仰的人之间的断层线，而是持有这些信仰的人之间的断层线，这些人的信仰带有不确定性，而持有这些信仰的人的信仰带有确定性。

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All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.

地球上的一切都在旧年的十月里指向家;水手出海，旅人筑墙筑篱，猎人到田野去打猎，猎犬长鸣，爱人已被他抛弃。

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I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

多年来，我学到，当一个人下定决心时，恐惧就会减少;知道必须做什么可以消除恐惧。

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Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.

我表现出来的大部分自信，尤其是受到午间酒的影响时，只是一种伪装。

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The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.

灵魂的财富是由它能感觉到多少来衡量的;它的贫穷少得可怜。

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The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

人与权力的斗争就是记忆与遗忘的斗争。

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Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.

想象，心灵的叛徒，夺走了我的孤独，把它消灭了。

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This is a struggle of good and evil. And we're the good.

这是一场正义与邪恶的斗争。我们是好人。

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Large desire is endless poverty.

巨大的欲望就是无尽的贫穷。

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