A discontented young fellow, filled with self pride; he certainly should have considered it an honor to be sent on so respectable an embassy as he was.

  • -- Zebulon Pike 西布伦长矛

一个不满的年轻人,充满了骄傲;他被派到这样一个受人尊敬的大使馆来,当然应该把这看作是一种荣誉。

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I was a starter and did some good things there, and then I got a chance to prove myself as a closer. Because of that opportunity, I was blessed with the honor of being elected to the Hall of Fame.

我是一个先发球员,在那里做了一些好事,然后我有机会证明自己是一个更接近目标的球员。因为这个机会,我有幸被选入名人堂。

There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.

在人类的头脑中有一种骄傲,一种自爱,这种骄傲和自爱很少会被压得如此之低,以至于使男人和女人变得比他们应该的更卑贱。

The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight; he loses part of his future. He's a step closer to the slum he came from.

拳击手在战斗中失去的不仅仅是自尊;他失去了一部分未来。他离自己出身的贫民窟又近了一步。

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.

人老了,就像一堆别人寄来的信。我们不再是过去的我们,我们已经到来。

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

聪明人知道知足的人从不贫穷,而不知足的人从不富有。

The only place I considered home was the boarding school, in Yorkshire, my parents sent me to.

我唯一认为家是寄宿学校,在约克郡,我父母送我去的。

A fellow with the inventiveness of Albert Einstein but with the attention span of Daffy Duck.

他有爱因斯坦那样的创造力,但注意力却像鸭子一样分散。

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

一个人的虚荣心告诉他什么是荣誉,一个人的良心告诉他什么是正义。

Very often the quiet fellow has said all he knows.

那个安静的人常常把他所知道的都说了。