I am also well aware that literature only has a minimal influence on political disputes or economic crises in the world, but its significance to human beings is ancient.

  • -- Mo Yan 莫言

我也深知,文学对世界上的政治纷争和经济危机的影响微乎其微,但它对人类的意义却是源远流长的。

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The fault seems to me to have been that men have taken ancient country churches as their models and have failed to discover that between them and churches in towns there ought to be a most distinct and marked difference.

在我看来,问题在于人们把古老的乡村教堂当作他们的榜样,却没有发现它们和城镇中的教堂之间应该有最明显的区别。

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

婚姻是一场漫长的谈话,充满了争吵。