The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

  • -- Albert Schweitzer 艾伯特·施韦策

在暴风雨面前弯下腰的柳树,往往比抵抗暴风雨的橡树逃得快;因此,在重大灾难中,有时轻浮轻浮的人比高尚的人更容易恢复他们的弹性和镇定。

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So when we're really addressing issues like poverty, you can't do that without addressing the real driver of some of those, which is stable homes, families. So that's why to me those issues are important. They're not frivolous. They're critical economic issues.

因此,当我们真正解决贫困等问题时,如果不解决其中一些问题的真正驱动力,也就是稳定的家庭,就无法做到这一点。这就是为什么这些问题对我来说很重要。他们不是轻浮。它们是关键的经济问题。

Actually lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win frivolous lawsuits against insurance companies.

实际上,降低保险成本可以通过以下措施来实现:让律师更难打赢针对保险公司的无关紧要的诉讼。

Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.

每一种经验都是矛盾的,因为它意味着绝对,但又是相对的;在某种程度上,它总是超越它自己,但从不逃脱它自己。

Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.

往往需要一些灾难才能让我们活在当下。然后我们突然醒来,看到我们犯的所有错误。

A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.

一个爱发牢骚的人可以逃避很多小烦恼,所以做一个爱发牢骚的人几乎是值得的。

Mama is slowly getting better. So many people are so fond of her.

妈妈慢慢好起来了。很多人都很喜欢她。

Well, first I'd want a better vibrato.

首先我想要一个更好的颤音。