Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.

  • -- Spiro T. Agnew 阿格纽

有三样东西是很难驯服的:海洋、傻瓜和女人。我们也许不久就能驯服海洋;傻瓜和女人需要更长的时间。

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No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal.

没有一个水族馆,没有一个水族箱,在一个海洋的土地上,无论多么宽敞,都不能开始复制海洋的条件。而居住在这些水族馆或海洋陆地上的海豚都不能被认为是正常的。

Often extinctions in the ocean occur at the same time as those on land. Then again, the ice age extinctions lost many big animals, but not many sea faring ones.

海洋生物的灭绝常常与陆地生物同时发生。再一次,冰河时代的灭绝使许多大型动物灭绝,但没有多少海洋动物灭绝。

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.

曾经有一段时间,一个傻瓜和他的钱很快就分开了,但现在这种事发生在每个人身上。

I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.

我不愿像人类之父那样是个懦夫,把责任推给一个女人。

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

一个女人要想写小说,就必须有钱,有自己的房间。

I'd be a fool to be in this for the money.

我要是为了钱而这样做,那就太傻了。