The big guys choose who they want to fight and they think about history: 'how many times I defended my title.' They try to break a record: 'how long I was there.' But if you look at the pedigree, who they fought, ain't nobody gonna give them credit for it because they fought a lot of people with no experience.

  • -- Evander Holyfield 霍利菲尔德

大人物选择他们想要与谁战斗,他们会想到历史:‘我多少次捍卫了我的冠军头衔。他们试图打破一项纪录:“我在那里待了多长时间?”“但是如果你看看他们的血统,他们和谁打过仗,没有人会把功劳归于他们,因为他们和很多没有经验的人打过仗。

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As an actor, I travel around a lot and live in a lot of hotels, and many times I've been in a town where the only entertainment to be had is what you find in the hotel bar or lobby.

作为一名演员,我经常旅行,住在很多酒店,很多时候我去过一个小镇,那里唯一的娱乐就是你在酒店的酒吧或大堂里能找到的东西。

Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.

每个时代都试图形成自己对过去的概念。每一个时代都参照其所处时代的最高条件,重新书写过去的历史。

A war regarded as inevitable or even probable, and therefore much prepared for, has a very good chance of eventually being fought.

一场被认为是不可避免的,甚至是可能发生的,因此准备充分的战争,最终极有可能爆发。

Nobody really thought I was going to make it, because I was a musician. I really wasn't a singer.

没有人真的认为我会成功,因为我是一个音乐家。我真的不是一个歌手。

If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

如果一个人的性格被滥用,没有人会像他的亲戚一样去做生意。