Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.

  • -- Russell Baker 拉塞尔·贝克

记者对世界的不幸幸灾乐祸。正因为如此,他们常常在令其他人类失望的事件中获得一种不体面的快乐。

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If we intensify our efforts we can have a cloned baby within a year or two, but I don't know whether we can intensify our efforts to that extent. We're not really under pressure to deliver a cloned baby to this world. What we are under pressure to do is to deliver a cloned baby that is a healthy one.

如果我们加强我们的努力,我们可以在一两年内有一个克隆婴儿,但我不知道我们是否可以加强我们的努力到那个程度。我们并不是真的有压力要把克隆婴儿送到这个世界上。我们所面临的压力是要接生一个健康的克隆婴儿。

There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion than that the poet's metaphors should spoil his words for the ordinary uses of man.

没有什么比诗人的比喻破坏了他的文字,使其不能用于人类的日常用途更能说明为什么一幅画的特征会被这样富有想象力的暗示所歪曲了。

There is no reason inherent in the real resources available to us why we cannot move rapidly within the next two or three years to a state of genuine full employment.

我们所拥有的实际资源中没有任何内在的理由说明,为什么我们不能在今后两、三年内迅速进入真正充分就业的状态。

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.

有道德的人常常为他们所受的约束和他们所激发的无聊而报复自己。

There are two types of people in the world, and I'm one of them.

世界上有两种人,我就是其中之一。

Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable.

经济、政治和个性往往是密不可分的。

Honestly, the world can be a dark enough place. Light it up.

老实说,这个世界已经够黑暗的了。光。

Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?

谁说过快乐没有作用?