A children's author on a soapbox is not a pleasant sight but I have become drawn into issues, slightly unwillingly, relating to young people, literacy and youth justice: just look at the number of young people we have locked up in prison, and the uselessness of it.

  • -- Anthony Horowitz 安东尼·赫洛维兹

一个儿童作家站在讲台上发表演讲不是一件令人愉快的事情,但我已经有点不情愿地陷入了与年轻人、文化素养和青年正义有关的问题中:看看我们被关在监狱里的年轻人的数量,就知道了,这些年轻人毫无用处。

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The first, that their pretensions to this possession of an art properly so called in their art of speaking are entirely unfounded; and the second, that they are involved in a profound mistake in their confusion of the good with the pleasant.

第一,他们自称掌握了一门在他们的语言艺术中被恰当地称为艺术的东西,这是完全没有根据的;第二,他们把美好和快乐混为一谈,这是一个严重的错误。

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

你教孩子读书,他或她就能通过读写测试。

A pleasant think never comes too soon.

愉快的想法永远不会来得太早。