In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.

  • -- Northrop Frye 弗莱

在我们这个时代,传统的文学元素被版权法精心掩盖,假装每一件艺术作品都是一项独特的发明,足以获得专利。

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States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking.

国家就像人一样。他们不会对可怕的现状提出质疑,直到某个戏剧性的事件颠覆了传统的、松懈的思维方式。

I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.

我想成为不满足于传统角色的少数女性之一。

Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.

在现实中,我们的美德往往与伪装起来的恶习无异。