A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.

  • -- Wyndham Lewis 汉姆·利维斯

今天,人们以青春的神圣名义做了一百件事,如果他们展现出自己的真面目,人们就会认为他们是属于老年人的权利。

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I'm drawn to almost any piece of writing with the words 'divine love' and 'impeachment' in the first sentence. But I know the word 'divine' makes many progressive people run screaming for their cute little lives, and so one hesitates to use it.

几乎每一篇文章的第一句话里都有“神圣的爱”和“弹劾”这样的字眼,我都会被它们所吸引。但我知道,“神圣”这个词让许多进步人士尖叫着奔向他们可爱的小生命,所以人们不愿使用它。

The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.

这个东西,多年来不断地考问人们的思想,最后终于被正确地写在纸上,不管大小,它属于文学。

I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom.

我坚决反对在屏幕上看到卧室里的东西。

Relics are treasured as something close to the divine.

文物作为接近神圣的东西而被珍视。