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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We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us. But we're presumably acting in such a way that people feel morally compelled to continue our mission, not to screw it up.

我们没有其他来源的持不同政见者。如果他们挺身而出,那对我们来说将是一个棘手的局面。但我们的行为方式应该是让人们觉得道德上有义务继续我们的使命,而不是把它搞砸。

If I don't feel like I'm doing the job well, and I don't know how to get there, or I'm too scared, or whatever, I'm not a happy guy and I'm not pleasant. I'm not pleasant to be around.

如果我觉得自己的工作做得不好,不知道如何去做,或者我太害怕了,或者诸如此类,我就不是一个快乐的人,我也不快乐。我不喜欢和你在一起。

Well, it's not a pleasant experience. And it's a terribly political process, because that thing was initiated by the Congress and by, you know, our adversaries in the Congress.

这不是一次愉快的经历。这是一个可怕的政治过程,因为这是由国会发起的,而且是由我们在国会的对手发起的。

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

孩子是优秀的观察者,他们常常能察觉到你最微小的缺点。总的来说,那些管理孩子的人,什么也不原谅他们,只原谅他们自己的一切。

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。

I just don't see anonymous sources as fair against a candidate. I think if someone has a real concern, they should come out and say it.

我只是觉得匿名消息来源对候选人不公平。我认为如果有人有真正的担忧,他们应该站出来说出来。

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

教育是令人钦佩的,但要不时地记住:凡是值得知道的,没有一个是可以教会的。

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。

Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.

尼采声称他的天才就在他的鼻孔里,我认为这是一个非常好的地方。

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。

Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him.

求你给我六句话,是极尊贵人所写的,我就可以在这六句话里找个借口把他挂起来。

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

我们必须与过去打交道,只有这样我们才能使它对现在和未来有用。

The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking.

享受欧洲之旅的时间大约是在开箱后的三周。

Sometimes when you're going fast, your instincts can be very useful.

有时候当你开得很快的时候,你的直觉会很有用。