The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a new one in its place.

  • -- Christopher Lasch 克里斯托弗.拉什

这则新闻引起了孩子们的厌倦感,就像孩子们一旦熟悉了一个玩具,就会对它感到厌倦,并要求换一个新的一样。

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Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.

大多数人读诗是为了寻找共鸣,因为共鸣对他们来说很熟悉。他们涉水而过,就像一个男孩涉水而过,用脚趾摸索着水底:回声就是水底。

The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.

对白人口袋的呼吁比对他良心的所有呼吁都更有效。

We are put on this planet only once, and to limit ourselves to the familiar is a crime against our minds.

我们在这个星球上只存在一次,把自己局限于熟悉的事物是对我们思想的犯罪。

You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.

你可以放心地向联合国呼吁,因为它肯定会使你失望。

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

环保主义者反对不计后果的创新,并将保护作为商业活动的中心秩序。

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

天之爱使人天堂。