Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

  • -- William Penn 威廉·佩恩

读书太多是一种心灵的压抑,熄灭了自然的蜡烛,这就是世界上有那么多无知的学者的原因。

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Whatever the reason is, I hope we can finish talking about the Olympics. It's gone, it's behind us. The schedule wasn't proper for players who went there and there is some fatigue in a lot guys' play right now.

不管是什么原因,我希望我们能结束对奥运会的讨论。它不见了,它在我们身后。赛程不适合去那里的球员,现在很多球员都有些疲劳。

People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.

人们必须团结起来,一起工作。我厌倦了白人对我们施加的那种压迫,现在仍在试图施加这种压迫。

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

文学是一种艺术,它能发现普通人身上不平凡的东西,用平凡的语言表达不平凡的东西。

I'm a bit of a nerd, I wouldn't mind working in a shop selling records, or having a radio show where I could play obscure singles.

我有点书呆子气,我不介意在卖唱片的店里工作,或者主持一个电台节目,在那里我可以播放默默无闻的单曲。

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

很多足球的成功都在脑海中。你必须相信你是最好的,然后确保你是最好的。

Literature for me was a magnificent destiny for which I was not yet fully prepared.

文学对我来说是一种伟大的命运,我还没有完全准备好。

The only reason to live is to love and the only reason to love is to live.

活着的唯一理由是爱,而爱的唯一理由是活着。

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

我们应该感到悲伤,而不是沉沦在它的压迫之下。