In the old days of literature, only the very thick-skinned - or the very brilliant - dared enter the arena of literary criticism. To criticise a person's work required equal measures of erudition and wit, and inferior critics were often the butt of satire and ridicule.

-- Joanne Harris 乔安·哈瑞斯

在文学的旧时代，只有厚脸皮的人才敢进入文学批评的舞台。批评一个人的作品需要同样的博学和智慧，而拙劣的批评家常常成为讽刺和嘲笑的对象。

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You should never assume contempt for that which it is not very manifest that you have it in your power to possess, nor does a wit ever make a more contemptible figure than when, in attempting satire, he shows that he does not understand that which he would make the subject of his ridicule.

你永远不应该假定对它不是很明显,在你拥有力量,智慧也不做一个更可鄙的图相比,在尝试讽刺,他表明,他不明白,他会让他嘲笑的对象。

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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

我宁愿做真实的自己，即使冒着招致他人嘲笑的危险，也不愿做虚假的自己，招致自己的憎恶。

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Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.

博学-从书中抖出的灰尘变成了一个空头骨。

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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

博学能生叶而不结果子。

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