A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match.

  • -- Charles Dickens 查尔斯·狄更斯

一个不能付款的人得到另一个不能付款的人来保证他能付款。就像一个有两条木腿的人得到另一个有两条木腿的人来保证他有两条天然的腿。这使他们两人都不能进行竞走比赛。

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You and I have been physically given two hands and two legs and half-decent brains. Some people have not been born like that for a reason. The karma is working from another lifetime.

你和我的身体被赋予了两只手、两条腿和半真半假的大脑。有些人生来就不是这样的。业力在另一个生命中运作。

Being involved in the well-being and advancement of one's own community is a most natural thing to do.

参与自己社区的福祉和进步是最自然的事情。

I have legs of iron, but to tell you the truth, they're starting to rust and buckle a bit.

我的腿是铁制的,但是跟你说实话,它们开始生锈了,而且有点弯。

In scientific subjects, the natural remedy for dogmatism has been found in research.

在科学领域,教条主义的自然疗法已经在研究中被发现。