Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves.

  • -- William Temple 坦普尔

我们现在的时代确实是一个批判和批判的时代,徘徊在愿望和无法相信之间。我们的怨言,就像射在空中没有靶子的箭,徒然落在我们头上,自取灭亡。

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It's a little bit like my inability to read a guide book before I go anywhere. I can read it after I've been there and by the same logic I refuse to accept any technical stunts from anybody. I refused to learn more than I knew and I confess I missed a great deal.

这有点像我在去任何地方之前都不能读一本导游书。我去过之后就能看懂,同样的道理,我拒绝接受任何人的任何技术特技。我拒绝学得比我知道的更多,我承认我错过了很多。

His struggle for a bare living left him no time to take advantage of the public evening school. In time he learned to read, to follow a conversation or lecture; but he never learned to write correctly; and his pronunciation remains extremely foreign to this day.

为了勉强糊口,他没有时间上夜校。随着时间的推移,他学会了阅读,学会了跟随谈话或讲座;但是他从来没有学会正确地写字;直到今天,他的发音仍然非常陌生。

The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.

所有人在任何意义上都是自由平等的,或在任何时候都是自由平等的,这一学说是完全没有根据的。

Sometimes i think about the past and i fall apart inside.

有时我想起过去,内心就会崩溃。