The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.

  • -- Lawrence Durrell 劳伦斯·杜雷尔

令人震惊的是,女性的慈善程度。你总是能看到……爱挥霍在绝对愚蠢的人身上。你知道,爱是一个慈善病房。

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No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.

没有建筑师会费心设计出适合人们居住的房子,因为这意味着要建造一系列不同的房子。这样做要便宜得多,而且最重要的是,可以节省时间。

My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.

作为一个女人和一个人,我的优势在于,我的母亲非常重视妇女的教育。她是牛津大学的一名早期本科生,她自己的母亲是一名医生。

It was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials.

她习惯用不充足的材料来制造笑声。

But meanwhile time flies; it flies never to be regained.

但与此同时,时间飞逝;它再也飞不回来了。