There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter.

  • -- Mortimer J. Adler 莫蒂默·杰尔姆·阿德勒

我能想到的只有一种情况,那就是男性和女性都努力比平时读得更好。而是当他们坠入爱河,读情书的时候。

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When, instead of merely associating some act with some situation in the animal way, we think the situation out, we have a set of particular feelings of its elements.

当我们不只是把某些行为与动物的某些情境联系起来,而是把情境想清楚时,我们就会对其中的元素有一套特定的感觉。

There are plenty of men who philander during the summer, to be sure, but they are usually the same lot who philander during the winter-albeit with less convenience.

可以肯定的是,有很多男人在夏天的时候会到处拈花惹草,但他们通常都是在冬天拈花惹草的同一群人——尽管不太方便。

People should reject God defiantly in order to pour out all their loving solicitude upon mankind.

人们应该大胆地拒绝上帝,以便把他们所有的爱和关怀倾注到人类身上。

In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power.

在生活中,单身女性是最脆弱的成年人。在电影中,他们被赋予想象的力量。

For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.

对我来说,诗歌是一种情境——一种存在的状态,一种面对生活和历史的方式。

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

女性没有同情心,我对女性的了解几乎和欧洲一样多。

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

如果有那么多的男人,那么多的思想,那么多的心灵,那么多的爱。

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

大工作通常是那些能证明自己有能力克服小工作的人做的。

Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?

为什么人们不能坐下来读书,对彼此好一点呢?

Dominate in your domain; You can do it.

主导你的领域;你能做到。