Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

  • -- Joseph Addison 约瑟夫·艾迪生

人类可以改变他们的气候,但不能改变他们的本性。一个出去当傻瓜的人,既不能骑马,也不能航海,使自己进入常识。

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The saddest fact of climate change - and the chief reason we should be concerned about finding a proper response - is that the countries it will hit hardest are already among the poorest and most long-suffering.

气候变化最令人悲哀的事实——也是我们应该关注如何找到适当对策的主要原因——是,受影响最严重的国家已经是最贫穷和最长期受苦的国家之一。

The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.

对一个人来说,最好的书并不总是那些智者推荐的书,而是那些能满足他特殊需求的书,能满足他头脑中自然的渴望,因此能唤起兴趣,吸引思想。

Once you start to look into the guts of climate change you find that just about every scientific institution in the world is conducting research on the issue.

一旦你开始研究气候变化的本质,你会发现世界上几乎所有的科学机构都在研究这个问题。

A song is like a saddle: you ride it for a while, and if it's the right kind of song you can sing it for the rest of your life.

一首歌就像一个马鞍:你骑一会儿,如果它是正确的类型的歌,你可以唱它的余生。

Chicks wishin' they could ride with the young buck. While I'm lane switchin swangin' wild as some nunchucks.

小鸡们希望能和小雄鹿一起骑马。而我却像双节棍一样疯狂地在车道上摇摆。

If you really want things to change, you can make them change no matter where you are.

如果你真的想让事情改变,无论你在哪里,你都可以让它们改变。

If I'm given an opportunity to do something, I do it. Or else I fool around with it.

如果我有机会做某事,我会去做。否则我就会浪费时间。

The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition.

女人天性中最大的变化是由爱带来的;人靠雄心壮志。

For it is men that make a city, and not its walls, nor its ships empty of men.

因为造城的是人,并不是城墙,也不是船只空无一人。

All men think all men mortal, but themselves.

所有的人都认为所有的人都会死,除了他们自己。

A man who is not with a woman is a dead man.

没有和女人在一起的男人是死人。

The fool speaks, the wise man listens.

愚者说,智者听。