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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

  • -- Joseph Addison 约瑟夫·艾迪生

动物所处的时代比人类聪明;但是他们的智慧局限于一些细节，而且局限在一个非常狭窄的范围内。

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All I can hope to do is instill great morality in my son and trust him along the way. The music he listens to or how he chooses to wear his hair doesn't define his moral compass, and if he wants to listen to country music and wear a cowboy hat too, that's fine.

我所能做的就是给我的儿子灌输伟大的道德观念，并且一路信任他。他所听的音乐或他选择的发型并不能定义他的道德准则，如果他想听乡村音乐并戴上牛仔帽，也没关系。

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The problem with people who are afraid of imagination, of fantasy, is that their world becomes so narrow that I don't see how they can imagine beyond what their senses can verify. We know from science that there are entire worlds that our senses can't verify.

那些害怕想象和幻想的人的问题是，他们的世界变得如此狭小，以至于我看不出他们的想象力如何超越他们的感官所能证实的。我们从科学上知道，我们的感官无法验证整个世界。

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Let's have the music that will open the door to millions of people... the kind of music that will not make people think only of the song or even of the singer... not music that is confined to the merely personal.

让我们的音乐为数百万人打开大门……这种音乐不会让人们只想到歌曲，甚至是歌手……而不是局限于个人的音乐。

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How, then, can the rights of three men exceed the rights of two men? In what possible way can the rights of three men absorb the rights of two men, and make them as if they had never existed.

那么，三个人的权利怎么能超过两个人的权利呢?三个人的权利怎样才能吸收两个人的权利，使他们仿佛从来没有存在过。

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The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

男性反对女性解放的历史也许比解放本身的故事更有趣。

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I wish I had been wiser. I wish I had been more effective, I wish I'd been more unifying, I wish I'd been more principled.

我希望我当时更明智一些。我希望我能更有效率，我希望我能更团结，我希望我能更有原则。

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A son could bear complacently the death of his father while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair.

儿子可以沾沾自喜地忍受父亲的死亡，而失去遗产则可能使他绝望。

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Working with animals is always going to be tough because the animal doesn't know it's an actor.

与动物打交道总是很困难的，因为动物不知道自己是一个演员。

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The wiser world doth greater thee confess Than all men else, than thy self only less.

聪明的世界比别人更爱你，比你自己更爱你。

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Alone! Alone! No beacon, far or near! No chart, no compass, and no anchor stay!

独自一人!独自一人!没有烽火台，无论远近!没有海图，没有罗盘，没有锚!

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Disinformation is most effective in a very narrow context.

虚假信息在非常狭窄的背景下是最有效的。

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