The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.

  • -- Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld 弗朗索瓦六世,罗切福科公爵

很少有人在谈话中令人愉快的原因是,每个人都在想自己要说什么,而不是别人在说什么。

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The course that will restore to the workmen a father's duties and responsibilities, between which and themselves the state has now stepped, is for them to reject all forced contributions from others, and to do their own work through their own voluntary combinations.

现在,国家已经介入了工人和他们自己之间的关系,在这一过程中,工人们要恢复父亲的职责和义务,那就是拒绝接受别人的一切强迫劳动,通过自己自愿的结合来完成自己的工作。

Cuvier had preceded Lamarck in specifying the kinds and degrees of variation, which his own observations and critical judgment of the reports of others led him to admit.

居维叶在拉马克之前就说明了变异的种类和程度,他自己的观察和对别人报告的批判性判断使他承认了这一点。

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

我说没有黑暗,只有无知。

Suffice it to say, I'm not poor.

只要说,我不穷就够了。