It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

  • -- Herodotus 希罗多德

勇敢地冒着被我们所预料的一半灾祸所害的危险,总比因为害怕可能发生的事情而胆怯地无精打采要好。

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Nature hath given not only to the highest, but also to the inferior, classes of the people of this nation, a boldness and confidence in speaking and answering, even in the presence of their princes and chieftains.

大自然不仅赐予这个国家的最高阶层的人民,而且赐予这个国家的下层人民,即使在他们的首领和首领面前,在说话和回答问题时也有勇气和信心。

Nowadays the audience has changed. No one can anticipate the audience. That's what I think musicals will come to. No backstage stories, nothing of that sort.

现在观众变了。没有人能预料到观众。我想这就是音乐剧的未来。没有幕后故事,没有那种。

We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.

我们说一个带着娃娃的女孩期待着妈妈的到来。也许,更真实的情况是,大多数母亲仍然只是带着玩具的孩子。

The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.

如果我们要接受答案,大胆地提出深奥的问题可能需要意想不到的灵活性。