People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

  • -- Samuel Butler 塞缪尔巴特勒

人们的幸运和不幸并不完全取决于他们得到了什么,而是取决于他们得到的东西和他们所期望的东西之间的比例。

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In the course of her education she had gone through the history usually put into the hands of young people... now her ripened reason gave to her present study at least the advantage of novelty.

在她受教育的过程中,她经历了通常由年轻人掌握的历史。现在,她成熟的理智至少给了她目前的研究带来了新奇的好处。

I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery.

我发现人们通过幽默找到了摆脱痛苦的方法,而这种幽默往往是不那么痛苦的人无法接受的。