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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 cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.
我不能同意我这必死无疑的躯体将被埋葬在一个为皇帝或国王准备的宝库中。我的共和情怀和原则禁止我这样做。
To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.
对我来说，武术的非凡之处在于它的简单。简单的方法也是正确的方法，武术没什么特别的;越接近武术的真道，表达的浪费就越少。
Don't let go of the vine.
不要放开藤蔓。
Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.
不必要的财产是不必要的负担。如果你有它们，你必须照顾它们!简单的生活有很大的自由。最幸福的人是那些拥有足够但不太多的人。
Brevity is the soul of wit.
简洁是智慧的灵魂。
A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it is more calculated to bother him.
然而，对法语中反身用法的逻辑分析表明，这种简单是一种幻觉，它非但没有帮助外国人，反而更有意地让外国人感到烦恼。