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The streets and alleys of the ward were notoriously filthy, and the contractors habitually neglected them, not failing, however, to draw their regular payments from the city treasury.

  • -- Ray Stannard Baker 贝克

病房里的大街小巷都是出了名的肮脏，承包商们习惯性地忽视了他们，然而，他们并没有忘记从市财政中定期支取款项。

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I will not do work that isn't done well or right. Stuff happens - things break, contractors don't come through - but I don't want to be responsible for not doing something correctly.

我不会做做得不好或不对的工作。事情发生了——事情出了问题，承包商没有通过——但我不想为没有正确地做某件事而负责。

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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

神学告诉我们，来世将要忍受的地狱，并不比我们在这个世界上习惯性地以错误的方式塑造我们的角色而为自己制造的地狱更糟糕。

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Being able to draw means being able to put things in believable space. People who don't draw very well can't do that.

能够画画意味着能够把东西放在可信的空间里。画得不好的人做不到这一点。

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At sunset we are rattling through the streets of the little town of Cordova.

日落时分，我们咔嗒咔嗒地穿过科尔多瓦小镇的街道。

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Breakfast is a notoriously difficult meal to serve with a flourish.

众所周知，丰盛的早餐很难上桌。

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Except for me, no one in my family could draw.

除了我，我家没有人会画画。

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