Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

  • -- F. Scott Fitzgerald F.斯科特·菲茨杰拉德

生活本质上是一种欺骗,它的条件就是失败;救赎的不是幸福和快乐,而是来自斗争的更深层次的满足。

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The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life.

世界上一般人的表象和观念的形成和支配,并非出于对知识本身作为目的的充分而纯粹的渴望,而是为了使自己更好地适应生活条件而进行的斗争。

My hates have always occupied my mind much more actively and have given greater spiritual satisfactions than my friendships.

我的仇恨总是比我的友谊更活跃地占据我的思想,并给我更大的精神上的满足。

Sea ice conditions have remained stable in Antarctica generally.

南极洲海冰状况总体保持稳定。