Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure.

  • -- Thomas Edward Brown 托马斯·爱德华·布朗

文学是我向同胞们举起镜子的召唤,这对我来说很自然;在开放的发明领域,我并不是没有希望给他们带来快乐。

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Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.

当乔纳斯回到家,告诉他的妻子他迟到了三天,因为他被鲸鱼吞了。

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.

快乐不同于快乐。幸福与奋斗、忍耐和成就有关。

Since the invention of steamships distant countries have become like those that are near at hand.

自从蒸汽船发明以来,遥远的国家变得像那些近在咫尺的国家一样。

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

自满是一种快乐,伴随而来的是把自己当作原因的想法。

Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.

古希腊文学名著中很少有易于阅读的。

Literature is what's left standing after the storm.

文学是风暴过后留下来的东西。