Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

  • -- John William Gardner 约翰·威廉·加德纳

今天的很多教育都非常低效。我们常常在应该教年轻人自己种花的时候,却给他们插花。

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Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate. The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had. He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.

是啊,我们一出校门就搬起石头砸了自己的脚。一开始经营这家公司的人在我们有多少资本的问题上误导了几乎所有人。他说我们有足够的钱过三年不赚钱的日子,也有足够的钱过三个星期。

I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea. I am entranced by the mystery of them, and absorbed by their variety and kinds. Everywhere they are visible yet everywhere occult.

我还不知道为什么植物会从地上长出来,为什么会漂浮在小溪里,为什么会爬在岩石上,为什么会从海里滚出来。我被它们的神秘所吸引,被它们的多样性所吸引。它们随处可见,却又神秘莫测。

The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists - the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people - tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn't exist.

流行音乐家常常把意义抛诸脑后,用它来代替卡通片。更深层次的艺术家——世界上的垃圾艺术家和使用表情符号的人——倾向于把生活中所有的快乐都抛在脑后,就好像它根本不存在一样。

As always on this boulevard, the faces were young, coming annually in an endless migration from every country, every continent, to alight here once in the long journey of their lives.

和往常一样,这条林荫大道上的面孔都是年轻的,每年都有无数的移民从每个国家、每个大陆来到这里,在他们漫长的人生旅途中,有一次在这里下车。

As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play.

作为当今的画家,你必须在没有这个基本平台的情况下工作。但是,如果一个人不欺骗自己,不接受这种不确定性,其他的事情可能会起作用。

I can't think of any sentiment which is finer than being in a position to give people something they like. I love giving, I am rather embarrassed at receiving.

我想不出有什么比能够给人们提供他们喜欢的东西更好的感情了。我喜欢给予,但我对接受感到尴尬。

The difference is that for a soundly conceived and solidly endowed republic it takes a great deal longer for those seeds to germinate and the plants to grow.

不同之处在于,对于一个构思良好、天赋深厚的共和国来说,这些种子发芽和植物生长所需的时间要长得多。

The difference between relief pitching when I did it today is simple, there is too much of it. It's one of those cases where more is not necessarily better.

我今天做的减压投球的区别很简单,太多了。在这种情况下,越多并不一定越好。

There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.

任何两个人之间的差别,都不可能比同一个人、情人和丈夫之间的差别更大。

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

如果你选择的职业有一些意想不到的不便之处,你可以这样安慰自己:没有哪个职业是没有它们的。

When I was teaching at the University of Tehran we were struggling against the implementation of the revolution rules.

当我在德黑兰大学教书的时候,我们一直在反对革命规则的实施。

And I maintain good relationships with all the studios so I've never been bullied into any cut, frankly.

而且我和所有的工作室都保持着良好的关系,所以坦白地说,我从来没有被强迫去剪辑。

At first, I am giving energy to the creation, but later the creation seems to be giving energy to me.

起初,我给万物以能量,但后来万物似乎给了我能量。

People aren't always going to be there for you, that's why you learn to handle things on your own.

人不会永远在你身边,这就是为什么你要学会自己处理事情。

I did end up doing substitute teaching, but there's not a lot of teaching involved in that.

我最后确实做了代课教学,但这里面并没有很多教学内容。

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

中年真正可怕的事情是你会从中成长起来。

I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst.

我无法想象一个头脑正常的人怎么会去看精神分析学家。

Be your own politics, grow your own garden, and maybe you can help out more.

做你自己的政治,种植你自己的花园,也许你可以帮助更多。

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

建筑应该谈论它的时间和地点,但渴望永恒。

He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.

靠水晶球生活的人很快就学会吃磨碎的玻璃。

Always do your best what you plant now, you will harvest later.

现在种什么,以后就会收获什么。

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

图画破坏墙壁的次数比装饰墙壁的次数要多。

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

没有自己的认可,一个人是不会感到舒适的。

Can we cut the cake? I have a three-way to go to.

我们能切蛋糕吗?我有三条路要走。

Character is much easier kept than recovered.

保持品格比恢复品格容易得多。

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.

不要让昨天过多地消耗今天。

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

随着年龄的增长,内在的美悄然而至。

Things are beautiful if you love them.

如果你爱事物,它们就是美丽的。

You're So Young And Still So Free.

你那么年轻,那么自由。

Every actor has their stalker.

每个演员都有自己的跟踪者。