What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we can't define it.

  • -- Robert Morgan 罗伯特·摩根

什么使诗歌成为诗歌当然是无法定义的。当我们听到它,看到它时,我们能认出它,但我们无法定义它。

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It is widely assumed, contrary to fact, that theism necessarily involves the two assumptions which cannot be squared with the existence of so much suffering, and that therefore, per impossibile, they simply have to be squared with the existence of all this suffering, somehow.

人们普遍认为,与事实相反,有神论必然包含两个假设,这两个假设不能与如此多的痛苦的存在相符合,因此,就不可能而言,它们只能以某种方式与所有这些痛苦的存在相符合。

We didn't actually overspend our budget. The health Commission allocation simply fell short of our expenditure.

我们并没有超支。卫生委员会的拨款根本不够我们的开支。

It's not easy to date when you're hefty. Besides I like feeling thin because it makes me feel amorous.

当你很胖的时候约会是不容易的。此外,我喜欢感觉瘦,因为它使我觉得多情。

It is impossible to distrust one's writing without awakening a deeper distrust in oneself.

不可能不信任自己的写作而不唤醒对自己更深层次的不信任。

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

人们总是说时间能改变一切,但实际上你必须自己去改变它们。

The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.

把医生立为继承人的病人不大可能康复。