Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.

  • -- Joseph Addison 约瑟夫·艾迪生

在所有的写作中,没有哪一种写作比幽默作品更容易出错,因为没有哪一种写作比幽默作品更有野心超越他人。

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Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don't have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don't have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh.

大多数人对自动变速器的工作原理一无所知,但他们知道如何开车。你不需要学习物理就能理解开车时的运动规律。在使用麦金塔电脑时,你不需要了解这些东西。

It's good to be slightly ambitious, but I believe one shouldn't be too calculative. It's good to be on the edge, but I have never followed my mind. I have always followed my heart. And it has yielded the right results.

稍微有点野心是好的,但我认为一个人不应该太精于算计。处于边缘是件好事,但我从来没有跟随过自己的想法。我一直跟随我的心。它已经产生了正确的结果。

So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get.

举个例子,如果一个孩子被贴上了学习障碍的标签,它会对孩子得到的各种服务和潜在的适应产生非常具体的影响。

I guess the bigger you dream, the further you have to fall if you don't get it, so it can be a bit of a scary thing to be that ambitious.

我想,你的梦想越大,如果你没有实现它,你就会跌得越深,所以野心勃勃可能会有点可怕。

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

我宁可在知识上胜过别人,也不愿在能力和权柄上胜过别人。

Many, many, many small moves of many kinds can bring a way to manage change. The theory can come later.

许多、许多、许多、许多种类型的小举动都能带来一种管理变革的方式。这一理论可以稍后推出。

You are not the first, and will not be the last, to say so. I wear my “warped” label with pride.

你们不是第一个这样说的人,将来也不会是最后一个。我自豪地戴着“扭曲”的标签。

It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.

幸运的是,一件事行得通,另一件事行不通,这是一种偶然。

Writing about dead white males seems to be out of favor among academics.

写死去的白人男性似乎在学术界不受欢迎。

You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending.

当你没有一个快乐的结局时,你总会得到更多的尊重。

We all hold the keys to our own jail cells.

我们都掌握着自己牢房的钥匙。