Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.

  • -- Samuel Butler 塞缪尔巴特勒

语言并不像我们所希望的那样令人满意,但是,象我们的邻居一样,我们必须同他们生活在一起,必须把他们做到最好而不是最坏。

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I have never dealt with anything like this. The level of fraud like this involving people, I have not. When we hear of fraud, we think of bank fraud or confidence schemes.

我从来没有遇到过这样的事情。这种程度的欺诈涉及的人,我没有。当我们听到欺诈,我们想到银行欺诈或信心计划。

The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.

公务员制度除非受到法律的管制,否则永远不能有令人满意的基础。

I find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums.

我发现亚麻籽油和白铅是最令人满意的培养基。

I like poems that are complex.

我喜欢复杂的诗。