No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.

  • -- Paul Gallico 保罗·加利科

世界上没有任何一项运动像棒球那样干净利落、引人注目,其因果、犯罪与惩罚、动机与结果都被如此清晰地定义。

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We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken to no plea of ignorance, and measure out their rewards and punishments with calm indifference.

我们生来什么都不知道,经过努力,我们学到的只是一点点;然而,我们始终受到法律的约束,这些法律不听任何无知的辩解,以平静的冷漠来衡量它们的奖惩。

The only people available to change the world are the people now living in it, with all the beliefs they bring along - however retrograde those beliefs may appear to those of us who see ourselves as enlightened.

唯一可以改变世界的人是现在生活在这个世界上的人,他们带着所有的信念——不管这些信念在我们这些自认为是开明的人看来多么倒退。

Paris is one of the most beautiful places in all the world. Unfortunately, I was so homesick I couldn't appreciate its beauty.

巴黎是世界上最美丽的地方之一。不幸的是,我是如此想家,我不能欣赏它的美丽。

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

罪人的首要和最大的惩罚是罪的良心。