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简单
Simplicity
Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.
简单不应该与赤裸等同。
Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.
进步是人类使简单复杂化的能力。
In all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
在所有的事情中，最卓越的是简单。
Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.
简单是自然的第一步，也是艺术的最后一步。
Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things.
发现是一种被简单事物迷惑的能力。
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.
生活的智慧在于消除不必要的东西。
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
如果你不能简单地解释它，你就不能很好地理解它。
The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.
人类精神的敌人不是简单，而是复杂。
Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.
简单就是减去显而易见的，加上有意义的。
Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.
举止文雅，感情温柔;聪明的人;简单起见,一个孩子。
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
不是每天的增加，而是每天的减少。清除不必要的东西。
There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
朴素中有一种庄严，这远远超过了机智的奇异之处。
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I've always liked simplicity.
我一直喜欢简单。
I just take my three swings and go sit on the bench. I don't ever want to mess up my swing.
我只是挥了三下秋千，然后坐在凳子上。我可不想把秋千弄乱。
I find that kid actors are great reminders of the simplicity of acting. As you get older, you can sometimes complicate things a little more. You can become too aware of, 'Okay, this is the scene emotionally. This is where we need to be. We've got the climax coming up.' You can start to analyze it too much.
我发现童星能很好地提醒我们表演的简单性。随着年龄的增长，你有时会把事情复杂化。你可能会意识到，‘好吧，这就是情感上的场景。这是我们需要做的。高潮就要到了。你可以开始过多地分析它。
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
我有三宝，持而保之。一曰慈，二曰俭，三曰不敢為天下先。
Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.
宏伟与美丽是如此的对立，以至于你常常在增加美与减少美的同时，也在减少美。多样性与后者最为相似，简单性与前者最为相似。
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
一张桌子，一把椅子，一碗水果和一把小提琴;一个人想要快乐还需要什么?