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Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.

  • -- Nicholson Baker 尼科尔森·贝克

直到你的朋友或亲戚把这句谚语应用到你自己的生活中，或者直到你看到他把这句谚语应用到他自己的生活中，它都没有力量左右你。

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The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.

酒精对人类的影响是毫无疑问的，因为它能激发人类天性的神秘能力，通常会被冷静的事实和对清醒时刻的干涩批评压得粉碎。

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I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.

我并不是说一句谚语在恰当而合理地运用时是错误的，而是说，无论对错、打错打错，如果总是把它说出来，谈话就会变得索然无味、庸俗不堪。

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There's real peril in trying to repeat yourself, and apply rules that applied to something else to a new project.

试图重复自己的做法，并将适用于其他事情的规则应用到新项目中，这是非常危险的。

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I hate all that woozy political and psychotherapeutic crap applied to books and art.

我讨厌那些用在书籍和艺术上的政治和心理治疗废话。

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A person can understand things deeply through Proverbs.

一个人可以通过谚语深刻地理解事物。

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