An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

  • -- Russell Baker 拉塞尔·贝克

一个受过教育的人是这样的人:他知道,事实往往是,信息至多是不完整的,而且往往是错误的、误导人的、虚构的、虚假的——完全是错误的。

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The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation.

语义网不是一个单独的网络,而是当前网络的一个扩展,在这个网络中,信息被赋予了明确的含义,使计算机和人能够更好地合作工作。

You get built up and put on a pedestal and then people want to bring you down. It can be hurtful. Some people try to make me look bad or not a nice person but it's completely false.

你被树立起来,被人崇拜,然后人们想把你打倒。这可能是有害的。有些人试图让我看起来很糟糕或者不是个好人,但这是完全错误的。

I said that I'm only there to write the truth, I'm not going to cover anything up, but I'll put everything in context and get as close to the truth of this person as I can.

我说过我只是在那里写下真相,我不会掩盖任何事情,但我会把所有的事情放在背景中,尽可能接近这个人的真相。

I was thin in high school and then I gained weight. I went to a nutritionist. I learned for the first time about what things are healthy to eat, basically.

我在高中时很瘦,后来体重增加了。我去看了营养师。我第一次知道吃什么东西最健康。

There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice.

有一个误导人的不成文的规则是,如果一个给出建议的引文来自于一个著名的、非常古老的或希腊人,那么它一定是好的建议。

If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.

如果你打得不好,游戏就没有那么有趣了。当这种情况发生时,我告诉自己,就像我小时候一样出去玩。

What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.

人生的主题是什么——致富?所有那些发家致富的人可能都在围绕着生活的真实主题跳舞。

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

不管你怎么说十诫,你必须回到一个愉快的事实,那就是只有十诫。

Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue.

情绪肯定会误导你:它们会让你相信一些绝对、明显不真实的东西。

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

对死亡的恐惧是所有恐惧中最没有道理的,因为对一个死人来说,没有发生意外的危险。

We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old.

我们应该寻求与欧洲的合作,而不是把欧洲划分为虚构的新和虚构的旧。

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

是的,老朋友永远是最好的,除非你能找到一个适合做老朋友的新朋友。

Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.

几乎每个人的本能都是过于自信,对冷热无常的事情看得太多。

I was very athletic when I was younger and I am a very competitive person, so I never give up.

我年轻的时候很喜欢运动,我是一个很有竞争力的人,所以我从不放弃。

When you stop chasing the wrong things, you give the right things a chance to catch you.

当你停止追逐错误的事情时,你就给了正确的事情一个抓住你的机会。

Sometimes I miss coaching, but often things are not how they appear in football.

有时我想念教练,但在足球比赛中,事情往往不像看上去的那样。

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

教育是当学到的东西被遗忘时仍然存在的东西。

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

画画在你不知道怎么画的时候很容易,但是当你知道怎么画的时候就很难了。

I just want someone who likes to look at the stars just as much as i do.

我只是想要一个和我一样喜欢看星星的人。

Journalism is always the art of the incomplete. You get bits and pieces.

新闻总是一门残缺不全的艺术。你会得到一些碎片。

I always wanted to be the best and to get the most out of myself.

我一直想成为最好的,充分发挥自己。

Thank you for making me laugh when i'd almost forgotten how to.

谢谢你在我快要忘记怎么笑的时候逗我笑。

Being dead was one thing, getting ready for a wedding another.

死是一回事,为婚礼做准备是另一回事。

We never lose friends we just discover who the real ones are.

我们从不失去朋友,我们只是发现谁是真正的朋友。

Sometimes I'm really dressed up, and it really turns me on.

有时候我打扮得漂漂亮亮的,真让我兴奋。

As it turns out, what looks like science sometimes is not.

事实证明,看起来像科学的东西有时并不是。

In the age of information, ignorance is a choice.

在信息时代,无知是一种选择。

Censorship of ideas or images or words is wrong.

对思想、图像或文字的审查是错误的。

In opera, there is always too much singing.

在歌剧中,总是有太多的歌唱。

Do what you love and do it often.

做你喜欢做的事,经常做。

Spring is very energising to me.

春天使我充满活力。

A false report rides post.

虚报可以骗过。