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I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.

  • -- Randall Jarrell 兰德尔·贾雷尔

我认为，我们现代文化的一个可能定义是，我们十分之九的知识分子不会读诗。

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It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.

因为身体是一台机器，所以教育是可能的。教育是习惯的形成，是一种人工组织对身体自然组织的超诱导。

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Satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled television channels.

卫星广播使许多封闭社会中渴望获得信息的居民能够绕开国家控制的电视频道。

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Never let 'em see you sweat. Guests feel guilty if they think you've worked too hard to make dinner for them - which of course you have!

别让他们看到你流汗。如果客人认为你工作太辛苦而没能为他们做晚饭，他们会感到内疚——你当然有这种感觉!

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I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.

我想了又想，想了又想，我曾想过自己一百万次失去幸福，却一次也没有得到。

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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.

诗是一把永不拔出鞘的闪电之剑，它吞掉了装它的鞘。

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It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.

驯服老虎不是真正文化的一部分，正如驯服绵羊不是残忍的一样。

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The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.

要读的书不是为你着想的书，而是让你思考的书。

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I love to read things that I'm sure won't make a movie.

我喜欢读一些肯定不会拍成电影的东西。

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Poetry will die when love and pain cease to exist.

当爱和痛苦不再存在时，诗歌就会消亡。

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