Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.

  • -- T. S. Eliot T.S.艾略特

每一种经验都是矛盾的,因为它意味着绝对,但又是相对的;在某种程度上,它总是超越它自己,但从不逃脱它自己。

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There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.

有一件事是教授可以绝对肯定的:几乎每一个进入大学的学生都相信,或者说他相信,真理是相对的。

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

每个有可能的人都应该强迫自己在一年内休一个月的假,不管他是否愿意休。

Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air.

都柏林的夜晚又冷又干净,风在我的房间外呜呜作响,好像有一百万根管子在吹奏着空气。

I don't deal at all well with the relative amount of stuff I have to face already.

我根本不能很好地处理我已经要面对的相对数量的事情。

Imprisoned in every fat man a thin man is wildly signaling to be let out.

囚禁在每个胖子体内的一个瘦子正在疯狂地发出释放的信号。

I love sci-fi, computer games. I love any escapes. Give me them all.

我喜欢科幻,电脑游戏。我喜欢任何逃跑。把它们都给我。

Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.

请不要把你的机智发挥到举止文雅之外。