It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

  • -- John Steinbeck 约翰·斯坦贝克

在我看来,如果你或我必须在两种思想或行动之间做出选择,我们应该记住我们的死亡,并努力活着,使我们的死亡不会给世界带来快乐。

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The use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When we think well, we feel good. Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.

恰当地运用我们的智慧能给我们带来快乐。在这方面,大脑就像肌肉。当我们想得好的时候,我们感觉很好。理解是一种狂喜。

I can't sit back and swallow stuff. I live in a time and place, and in a country on earth where you're not supposed to swallow it. People just gave up.

我不能坐下来吞东西。我生活在一个时间和地点,在地球上的一个国家,你不应该吞下它。人们放弃了。

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

任何人的死亡都使我渺小,因为我与人类息息相关;因此,永远不要派人去打听丧钟为谁而鸣;它为你收费。

They have had such a crazy life living with me as their dad. Not crazy but different from their friends.

他们像他们的父亲一样和我生活在一起,过着如此疯狂的生活。不是疯了,而是和他们的朋友不一样。

We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.

我们几乎总是有选择,选择越好,我们就越能掌控自己的生活。

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

我从来不想看到任何人死去,但我愉快地读到一些讣告。

God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.

上帝总是把他最好的给那些留给他选择的人。

Who never caused others to die Seldom rates a statue.

从来没有造成他人死亡的人,很少会去评价一座雕像。