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Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.

  • -- Mortimer J. Adler 莫蒂默·杰尔姆·阿德勒

人们以三种方式来评价事物:有用的、令人愉快的或快乐的来源、优秀的、或本质上令人钦佩的或光荣的。

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It used to be that we disagreed over the basic facts we were fighting over, and we had different opinions about them. Now I think we accept different sources of authority. ... And people can establish credibility on their own say-so as long as nobody follows the trail and calls them out on it.

过去，我们在争论的基本事实上存在分歧，我们对这些事实有不同的看法。现在我认为我们接受不同的权力来源。而且人们可以建立起自己的信誉——只要没有人跟踪这条路，并在这条路上大声疾呼。

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Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.

这样的讨论对我们欣赏艺术或诗歌的优秀作品帮助甚微，无法区分它们的优劣，也无法使用诸如“美”、“卓越”、“艺术”、“诗歌”等词汇，而这些词汇的含义比它们原本的含义更为精确。

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Most people have excellent necks. Now they cover them with curtains, which is kind of ridiculous. But there are some beautiful necklines that you can cut into and create wonderful backs, as well as bone structure for the face.

大多数人都有很好的脖子。现在他们用窗帘盖住它们，这有点可笑。但也有一些美丽的领口，你可以剪开，创造出美妙的背部，以及面部的骨骼结构。

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She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.

她放弃了年轻时的美貌，放弃了所有的希望、欢乐和快乐;她闭上眼睛，以免他们看到虚荣，选择了苦涩的真相。

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One is to ensure that the war fighters and the intelligence analysts get the information that they need when they need it, in a format that's useful to them.

一是确保作战人员和情报分析人员在需要的时候得到对他们有用的信息。

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There's very little admirable about being a pirate. There's very little functional about a pirate. There's very little real about a pirate.

当海盗没什么值得钦佩的。海盗几乎没有什么功能。海盗几乎没有什么真实的东西。

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No voice teacher can be all things to all people. You have to gain information from whatever sources you can. You have to listen.

没有一个声乐老师能做到面面俱到。你必须从任何可能的来源获得信息。你必须倾听。

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It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

升为宝座，比生在宝座上更尊贵。福兮福所倚，福兮福所倚。

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It's pleasant and bothersome and embarrassing all at once. Especially when you haven't done much and are a celebrity.

这是愉快的，麻烦和尴尬的同时。尤其是当你还没做什么，而且是个名人的时候。

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I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.

我要自己判断事情;我认为，错误地判断比完全不判断更光荣。

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My wife and my three kids and my grandchildren are my life, but my horses and my dogs are everything else.

我的妻子、三个孩子和孙子孙女是我的生命，但我的马和狗是我的一切。

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It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

我通常要花三个多星期来准备一篇好的即席演讲。

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