If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.

-- Christopher Dawson 克里斯多夫·道森

如果人把自己局限于一种满足的动物的存在，而只从生活中问这种存在能给予什么，那么更高的生活价值就会立刻消失。

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Under the ominous shadow which the second World War and its attendant circumstances have cast on the world, peace has become as essential to civilized existence as the air we breathe is to life itself.

在第二次世界大战及其所伴随的情况给世界带来的不祥阴影下，和平已成为文明生存的必要条件，正如我们呼吸的空气对生命本身一样。

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An appreciable number of directors have shifted to lower-cost films, allowing them to be satisfied with a more modest return.

相当多的导演转向了成本更低的电影，这让他们对更低的回报感到满意。

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He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.

解渴的，必背过井去。

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The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.

生存的全部秘密就是无所畏惧。

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