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.

  • -- Trevor McDonald 特雷弗·麦克唐纳

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。

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Not a few other very eminent and scholarly men made the same request, urging that I should no longer through fear refuse to give out my work for the common benefit of students of Mathematics.

不少杰出的学者也提出了同样的要求,敦促我不要再因为害怕而拒绝为数学学生的共同利益而放弃我的工作。

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.

诗歌和进步就像两个野心勃勃的人,他们本能地憎恨彼此,当他们在同一条路上相遇时,其中一个不得不让步。

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.

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。

Let him who gives nothing be silent, and him who receives speak.

不施舍的,当默默无声;领受的,当开口说话。