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无聊
Boredom
Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?
谁想要一个保证我们不会因饥饿而死，却有因无聊而死的危险的世界呢?
Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
无聊对道德家来说是一个至关重要的问题，因为人类至少有一半的罪恶是由对无聊的恐惧造成的。
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。
Boredom is...a vital consideration for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
无聊是……对道德家来说，这是一个至关重要的考虑，因为人类至少有一半的罪恶是由对罪恶的恐惧造成的。
The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.
有创造力的人的生活是由无聊所引导、指导和控制的。避免无聊是我们最重要的目的之一。
If you're in a good profession, it's hard to get bored, because you're never finished -- there will always be work you haven't done.
如果你从事的是一份不错的职业，你很难感到无聊，因为你永远不会完成——总会有你没有完成的工作。
Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
无聊只是魅力的反面:两者都依赖于外在而非内在的情境，而其中一个会导致另一个。
Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.
懒惰的人往往是无聊的，无聊的人，除非他们睡得多，是残酷的。在我们这个时代，无聊和残酷是人们最关心的事情，这并非偶然。
I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.
我不想表达异化。这不是我的感觉。我对各种充满激情的参与感兴趣。我所有的工作都告诉我要严肃，要有激情，要清醒。
It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.
通向自由的不是简单的事实陈述;正是不断地重复它们才产生了这种解放的效果。宽容不是启蒙的结果，而是厌倦的结果。
Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
真正的旅行者会发现无聊与其说是痛苦不如说是愉悦。这是他自由的象征——他过度的自由。当无聊来的时候，他接受它，不仅是哲学上的，而且几乎是愉快的。
Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.
既然无聊是进步的，无聊是万恶之源，那么，难怪世界会倒退，邪恶会蔓延。这可以追溯到世界的起源。众神感到无聊;因此他们创造了人类。
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Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.
多样化不仅仅是一种避免无聊的方法，因为艺术不仅仅是感官的娱乐。
Long-term boredom can't lead to anything good.
长期的无聊不会带来任何好结果。
Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
然而，正是在我们的懒散中，在我们的梦想中，被淹没的真相有时会浮出水面。
The Beatles saved the world from boredom.
披头士将世界从无聊中拯救出来。
Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
无聊毕竟是一种批评。