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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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A lot of amateurs are terrified of going up against a player who is clearly better than they are. They never play their best, because they aren't comfortable. There's one surefire way to get over that, and it's to ask yourself, 'What if I beat him?' Imagine the possibility.

很多业余选手都害怕和一个明显比自己优秀的选手比赛。他们从来没有发挥出最好的水平，因为他们感到不舒服。有一个确定无疑的方法可以克服这个问题，那就是问问自己，‘如果我打败了他呢?“想象一下这种可能性。

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It is to be remedied that the false traitors will suffer no man to come into the king's presence for no cause without bribes where none ought to be had. Any man might have his coming to him to ask him grace or judgment in such case as the king may give.

必须纠正的是，那些虚伪的叛徒不允许任何人在没有贿赂的情况下，无缘无故地来到国王面前。凡有权柄的、可以到王那里去求他的恩、或王所赐给他的审判。

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Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

很少有人有真正的艺术才能。因此，通过努力来刺激局势既不合适，也没有效果。如果你有一种强烈的，不安分的写作或绘画的冲动，只要吃点甜食，这种感觉就会过去。

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Of all the toys available, none is better designed than the owner himself. A large multipurpose plaything, its parts can be made to move in almost any direction. It comes completely assembled, and it makes a sound when you jump on it.

在所有可用的玩具中，没有一件比主人自己设计得更好。一种大型多功能玩具，它的部件几乎可以向任何方向移动。它是完全组装好的，当你跳上去的时候，它会发出声音。

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We learned to put discipline in the haircuts by using actual geometry, actual architectural shapes and bone structure. The cut had to be perfect and layered beautifully, so that when a woman shook it, it just fell back in.

我们学会了运用真实的几何形状、真实的建筑形状和骨骼结构来规范发型。剪得要完美，层次要漂亮，这样当一个女人摇动它的时候，它就会掉回去。

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The trick is the paradox - turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total normality and then suddenly turns inside out and is a different thing all together then that's fun to write.

诀窍在于矛盾——把你的故事翻出来。现在，如果它看起来是完全正常的，然后突然由内而外变成了一个完全不同的东西，那么写起来很有趣。

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Low-income taxpayers deserve the same rights as everyone else. It was wrong of the IRS to target low-income taxpayers, and I am please by the decision to correct this unfair practice.

低收入纳税人应该享有和其他人一样的权利。国税局以低收入纳税人为目标是错误的，我对纠正这种不公平做法的决定感到高兴。

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It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.

一个人拥有多少大学课程或学位并不重要。如果他不能用语言把一个想法从一个点转移到另一个点，他的教育就是不完整的。

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One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays.

一个是对剧作家想法的诠释，因此剧作家越伟大，在戏剧中表演就越令人满意。

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I'm a bit of a caveman - I don't go out into the digital space very often. I lie facedown on the grass and count how many bugs I can find.

我有点像穴居人——我不经常去数字空间。我面朝下躺在草地上，数着我能找到多少只虫子。

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And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations.

我们开始怀疑我们的信息来源，因为他们都是由这些大型的多边公司控制的。

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The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations.

世界各国领导人未能在全球变暖这一关键问题上采取行动，往往被归咎于经济方面的考虑。

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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。

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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。

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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。

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I believe in letting each person find what they need and not getting involved with their destiny.

我相信让每个人找到他们所需要的，而不是卷入他们的命运。

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I've finally found that life goes on without you and my world still turns when you're not around.

我终于发现，没有你，我的生活还是照样在转。

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What we do as actors is we go through phases where you superficially learn all this information.

作为行动者，我们所做的就是经历一些阶段，在这些阶段里，你表面上了解所有这些信息。

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One to mislead the public, another to mislead the Cabinet, and the third to mislead itself.

一个误导公众，一个误导内阁，第三个误导自己。

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I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.

我想我永远不会做一张只有封面的专辑，因为我喜欢写我自己的音乐。

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I always tried to do the best. I knew I couldn't always be the best, but I tried to be.

我总是尽力做到最好。我知道我不可能总是最好的，但我努力做到最好。

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I'm a very early riser, and I don't like to miss that beautiful early morning light.

我是一个早起的人，我不想错过那美丽的晨光。

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I want to be the best, so whatever comes with that, I'll have to accept.

我想成为最好的，所以无论如何，我必须接受。

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Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.

谨防半真半假。你可能拿错了一半。

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I learned pretty quickly that you need to be careful who you trust.

我很快就明白，你需要小心你信任的人。

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If you don't have any fight in you, you might as well be dead.

如果你没有斗志，你还不如死了。

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Once they get their hooks into you, you're a dead pigeon.

一旦他们抓住你，你就死定了。

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I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.

我查了一下我的家谱，发现我是树液。

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I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body.

我只是一个被困在女人身体里的人。

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There's never a false note in a Berg novel.

在伯格的小说中从来没有一个错误的音符。

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Force always attracts men of low morality.

武力总是吸引道德败坏的人。

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