The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'

  • -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning 伊丽莎白·巴雷特·布朗宁

希腊人在他们的悲剧中庄严地说:“没有人在死前被称为幸福的;”对此,我还要补充一句:“没有人在死前被称为不幸福的。”

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But the worst of all is, according to the old phrase, while the grass grows, the horse starves, but the man of money is the man for Nova Scotia. Those may do extremely well.

但最糟糕的是,根据一句老话,草长了,马就饿死了,但有钱人是新斯科舍省的人。这些可能会做得非常好。

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.

戏剧这个词来自希腊。它的意思是看的地方。它是人们看到生活和社会状况真相的地方。

Why do Greeks always open restaurants that fail?

为什么希腊人总是开失败的餐馆?

World history is tragic.

世界历史是悲惨的。