To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves are wrapped up.

  • -- George H. Mead 乔治·H·米德

要对公共利益感兴趣,我们就必须不感兴趣,也就是说,不感兴趣的是与我们个人利益息息相关的东西。

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These days we seem more bound to our bosses than ever before. We even identify our own selves with the jobs we do: 'What do you do?' is the first question we ask each other at parties, as if a job title could express a fundamental truth about our personality.

如今,我们似乎比以往任何时候都更离不开老板。我们甚至把自己和工作联系在一起:‘你是做什么的?这是我们在派对上互相问的第一个问题,似乎一个职位头衔可以反映出我们性格的一个基本事实。

Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.

当然,现在是时候研究语言的意义和事物的本质,并得出一些简单的事实,这些事实不是根据有学问的权威的格言而得到的,而是根据我们对周围发生的事情的仔细观察而得到的。

I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.

我知道,要完全消除心中的愤怒是一项艰巨的任务。它不能通过纯粹的个人努力来实现。这只能靠神的恩典来完成。

I've always liked food, and I've always been interested in cooking and stuff like that.

我一直很喜欢食物,我一直对烹饪之类的东西很感兴趣。

A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.

一个人有多少个认识他的人,他就有多少个社会自我。

Anyone who's a great kisser I'm always interested in.

任何接吻高手我都很感兴趣。