A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.

  • -- W. E. B. Du Bois W·E·B·杜波依斯

少一点抱怨和牢骚,多一点坚韧不拔的工作和男子气概的奋斗,比一千项民权法案对我们更有好处。

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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.

人们到国外去,对高山的高度、大海的巨浪、河流的长流、浩瀚的海洋的罗盘、星星的圆周运动感到惊奇,而他们自己却毫不惊奇地走过了。

All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.

所有你可能达到或发现的,你都将被视为真理的一个更大模式的片段,每个真正的学者都在从不同的方法中努力去发现这个模式。

After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.

经过一个世纪的努力,经过一年的辩论,经过一次历史性的投票,医疗改革不再是一个没有兑现的承诺。这是国家的法律。

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

生命太短,不容小觑。当一个人深切地感受、大胆地行动、坦率而热情地表达自己时,他就会变得无比有男子气概。

By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.

我所说的粗俗,是指文明的罪恶,它使人为自己和近亲感到羞耻,并假扮成另一个人。

A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely.

一个现代文明只有当它被接受为个体存在并自由表达自己时才有可能。

Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession.

永远不要称会计为他的职业的荣誉;一个好的会计对他的职业是有好处的。

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

对大多数男人来说,生活就是寻找一个合适的马尼拉信封,把自己放进里面。

A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movies you didn't intend to be there.

很多时候,你在电影中得到了一些你并不打算去看的东西。