We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain

  • -- Augustine of Hippo 河马的奥古斯丁

我们当然和野兽属于同一类;动物的每一个行为都与寻求身体的快乐和避免痛苦有关

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Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one.

这与真正道德的第一原则背道而驰。在这里,我们发现道德错误和道德正确的观念与有益行为之外的其他事物有关。其结果是,我们忽视了道德的真正基础,而代之以虚假的基础。

I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.

我觉得我没有资格在高中以外的地方做教练。我想我需要接受更多的教育才能成为一名真正的好教练。

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

卡车、易货交易和用一种东西交换另一种东西的倾向对所有人来说都是普遍的,在任何其他动物种族中都找不到这种倾向。

Common sense is not so common.

常识并不常见。