Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.

  • -- Samuel Richardson 塞缪尔·理查森

谦卑是一种优雅,它在高尚的环境中闪耀光芒,但在卑微的环境中却无法同样闪耀光芒,因为一个人在卑微的环境中可能已经过于谦卑了。

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Often there is a wall between the journalist and the star because there is usually not much time to get to know a person, and the star is always asked the same questions, and may be defensive.

记者和明星之间经常有一堵墙,因为通常没有太多的时间去了解一个人,而明星总是被问同样的问题,而且可能是防御性的。

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

一个人爱另一个人;这也许是我们所有任务中最困难的,是最后的、最后的考验和证明,所有其他工作都只是准备工作。

Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.

压迫是一群人对另一群人所做的事,特别是因为后者有一个共同的威胁特征。

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

一个好的领导者的天才之处在于,他留下了一个没有天才风度的常识可以成功处理的局面。

The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.

想出如何利用他或她的组织的集体天赋的人将会在竞争中脱颖而出。

I hope that my story, I hope that my life is... an encouragement for people, especially in Brooklyn. I feel humbled and blessed.

我希望我的故事,我希望我的生活是…对人们的鼓励,尤其是在布鲁克林。我感到谦卑和幸福。

So I do have to work, you know, and I find as many movies and TV shows that I can, because otherwise I wouldn't have an income.

所以我必须工作,你知道,我尽可能多地找到电影和电视节目,否则我就没有收入了。

What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.

一个人对自己的性格、信息和能力的赞扬,也许比他所谴责的更可靠。

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

用最好的法律来改善我们的物质条件是困难的,但用坏的法律来破坏它却很容易。

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

一切智慧的思想都已经被思想了;我们所需要做的只是试着重新思考它们。

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

艺术是大自然的右手。后者只给了我们生命,前者造就了我们人类。

The sun shines on those who are standing before it shines on the people kneeling under them.

太阳照在身前的人身上,也照在身下的人身上。

I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition.

我认为描述人类状况是历代文学的探索。

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

贫穷时的谦逊和知识胜过昂贵时的骄傲和无知。

If you wait too long for the perfect moment, the perfect moment will pass you by.

如果你等待完美的时刻太久,完美的时刻就会从你身边溜走。

Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?

你知不知道,你的晚年也会以同样的优雅、力量和魅力降临?

I'm quite comfortable with being a geek. I've been a geek since high school.

我很乐意做一个极客。我从高中起就是个极客。

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less.

谦卑不是少想你自己,而是少想你自己。

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

对于那些你已经敞开心扉的人,永远不要紧闭双唇。

A statement necklace glams up any outfit without feeling like too much.

一条宣言项链能让任何一件衣服都显得光彩夺目,而且不会让人觉得太过奢华。

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

我不能给你写一个关于政治的字,因为你是一个女人。

The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.

太阳也照射到污水坑里,没有被污染。

Fate and self-help share equally in shaping our destiny.

命运和自助在塑造我们的命运中是平等的。

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

美而无美,犹如钩而无饵。

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart.

财富和匮乏同样使人的心变硬。

There is Auschwitz, and so there cannot be God.

有奥斯威辛集中营,所以不可能有上帝。

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

能做的,就去做。不会的人就去教书。

Syllables govern the world.

音节统治着世界。