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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 find littering very annoying. It's a minor but also a major thing: a society that litters is one that also has so little respect for the environment and, consequently, other people. If we had clean streets, a lot of other things would be fixed almost effortlessly.

我发现乱丢垃圾很烦人。这是一件小事，但也是一件大事:一个乱丢垃圾的社会是一个对环境和他人都不尊重的社会。如果我们有干净的街道，许多其他的事情将几乎毫不费力地得到解决。

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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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I had taken on the color of the climate around me and had driven back all the emotion that rose from the Brooklyn streets so that I could belong to the exclusive club of Congress.

我穿上了周围气候的颜色，驱走了从布鲁克林街道上升起的所有情绪，这样我就可以加入国会这个排外的俱乐部。

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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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If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.

如果伴郎的缺点写在他的额头上，他会用帽子遮住眼睛。

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I can draw really well. And I like to paint. I'm a bit of an artist.

我画得很好。我喜欢画画。我有点像个艺术家。

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Creative people are notoriously the slowest to adopt new technology.

众所周知，有创造力的人接受新技术的速度最慢。

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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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