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It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.
在自己身上发现达尔文理论有效性的这些奇怪的启示是令人不安的。如果我们确实是由无尾猿进化而来的，那么有时我自己的春天似乎并不遥远。
I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written.
我认为，如果我们认为诗歌的口述史比诗歌的书面史短，那么我们就是在愚弄自己，实际上是在否定大量的历史。这不是真的。诗歌的口头传统比书面传统更悠久。
By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need to be greater than mortal in some way, and that's led them into creating illusions, sound bites, focus groups that tell you what to do.
我的意思是，我认为政治和政治英雄必须在某种程度上满足我们超越凡人的需要，这一点是正确的，这导致他们创造了幻觉，声音片段，告诉你该怎么做的焦点小组。
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?
这并不是因为孩子生活在想象的世界里，而是因为我们内心的孩子只有在极少的回忆时刻才会生存下来，并开始生活。
I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams.
我不知道是谁说小说家读别人的小说只是为了弄清楚他们是怎么写的。我相信这是真的。我们对暴露在书页表面的秘密并不满意:我们把书翻了个底朝天，寻找缝合线。
A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which have afterwards, and, indeed, within a very short period, been found to be both possible and true.
他们所生活的那个时代的最高权威曾说过许多事情都是不真实的，荒谬的，甚至是不可能的。后来，甚至在很短的时间内，人们发现这些事情都是可能的，也是真实的。
In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
从真正意义上说，读过优秀文学作品的人比那些不会或不愿读的人活得更长。我们并不是只有一次生命;如果我们能读书，我们就能过上更多的生活，过上我们想过的各种各样的生活。
So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
所以人们认为我一直在谎报年龄?是记录错了。我从来没有告诉过任何人我有多大。他们一问我，我就说:‘这不关你的事。所以这意味着我从来没有谎报过自己的年龄。现在这是真的!
Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
很少有人有真正的艺术才能。因此，通过努力来刺激局势既不合适，也没有效果。如果你有一种强烈的，不安分的写作或绘画的冲动，只要吃点甜食，这种感觉就会过去。
Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.
正直是走向真正伟大的第一步。男人喜欢赞美，但付诸行动却很慢。要想在高位维持这种局面，需要自我否定;在任何地方，它都可能遭到反对，但它的结局是光荣的，宇宙仍将向它致敬。
For better or worse, that is true with any new innovation, certainly any new technological innovation. There's many good things that come out of it, but also some bad things. All you can do is try to maximize the good stuff and minimize the bad stuff.
无论是好是坏，任何新的创新，当然任何新的技术创新都是如此。这样做有很多好处，但也有一些坏处。你所能做的就是把好的东西最大化，把坏的东西最小化。
Some members of both Houses have, it is true, been removed from their employments under the Crown; but were they ever told, either by me or by any other of his majesty's servants, that it was for opposing the measures of the administration in Parliament?
诚然，两院的一些议员已被从他们的职位上撤下;但他们是否被告知，无论是我还是其他国王陛下的仆人，都是因为反对国会的行政措施?
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
You never forget your first true love. Either the scars they left behind stay there forever, or your heart never beats the same way again.
你永远不会忘记你的初恋。要么他们留下的伤疤永远留在那里，要么你的心脏再也不会以同样的方式跳动。
People think being alone makes you lonely but i don't think that's true. Being surrounded by the wrong people is the loneliest thing in the world.
人们认为独处会让你感到孤独，但我不这么认为。被错误的人包围是世界上最孤独的事情。
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
相信我，老年是一件美好而愉快的事情。诚然，你被轻轻地推下了舞台，但随后你作为观众得到了一个如此舒适的前排座位。
The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.
科学的好处是不管你相信与否，它都是真的。
Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.
找到真朋友的人是幸福的，在妻子身上找到真朋友的人要幸福得多。
We all have to stand by our life's work as the true test of what we have done for the world.
我们都必须坚持我们一生的工作，作为对我们为世界所做贡献的真正考验。