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鸡毛蒜皮事
Trifles
How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.
每件事都是那么琐碎!只有一个人的思想才能使房间里充满不仅仅是家具的东西。
A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.
一个有理智的人只会和他们玩些鸡毛蒜皮的事，逗他们开心，奉承他们，就像他对待一个活泼好动的孩子一样;但他既不向他们请教，也不把严肃的事情托付给他们。