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It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.
的确，正如一些诗人所说，创造人类的上帝一定有一种阴险的幽默感，创造了一个理性的人，却又强迫他摆出这种可笑的姿态，使他盲目地渴望这种可笑的表现。
Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one.
这与真正道德的第一原则背道而驰。在这里，我们发现道德错误和道德正确的观念与有益行为之外的其他事物有关。其结果是，我们忽视了道德的真正基础，而代之以虚假的基础。
These deserters were our undoing. I shall have a good deal more to say about them before I finally lay down my pen, and I shall not hesitate to call them by their true name, the name with which they will be for ever branded before all the nations of the world.
这些逃兵是我们的祸根。在我最后放下笔之前，我还有许多话要对他们说，我要毫不犹豫地直呼他们的真名，这个名字将永远铭刻在世界各国的面前。
Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true.
在过去的三十年里，技术的进步超过了前两千年。进步的指数增长只会继续下去。人类学的评论与琐碎事实相反的是错误的;伟大真理的反面也是正确的。
True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it was, and is, the sheer weight of numbers of those who failed of this that has made their influence on the modern life as pervasive and controlling as it is.
真因为这是,这也是事实,人就有很多获得什么,,,,的数字的那些失败使他们对现代生活的影响是普遍和控制。
Agency by agency, we frequently have lost a bit of ground, at least to inflation-but had it not been for the efforts we've made to educate people about the importance of science, technology and advanced education, those predictions very well might have come true.
一个机构接一个机构，我们经常失去一些阵地，至少是在通货膨胀面前——但是，如果不是我们努力教育人们科学、技术和高等教育的重要性，这些预测很可能已经成为现实。
I like books that have razor-sharp plotting that snaps and moves along. It's not about the main character being different at the end. I don't want my main character to be different in the end. I still want him committed to his ideas, to be steadfast, true and loyal.
我喜欢情节犀利的书。这并不是说主角在最后会有所不同。我不希望我的主角在最后有所不同。我仍然希望他忠于自己的想法，坚定、真实、忠诚。
Whether something is old-fashioned or not doesn't resolve the question of whether it's true or not. I can see the temptation of simply thinking, 'Well, there's a cultural mainstream which flows neatly in one direction. You just align with it'. And that really won't do.
有些东西是否过时并不能解决它是否正确的问题。我能看到人们简单地想，‘嗯，有一种文化主流整齐地朝着一个方向流动。你只要和它对齐。这真的不行。
I'm a big believer in the notion that our greatest potential lies in our darkest parts. To a certain extent it's only in facing those parts of ourselves that we can truly grow, and I think that's true of all of the characters I've played, certainly in the past few years.
我坚信，我们最大的潜力在于我们最黑暗的部分。在某种程度上，只有面对自己的这些部分，我们才能真正成长，我认为我扮演的所有角色都是如此，当然是在过去的几年里。
It is true that the poet does not directly address his neighbors; but he does address a great congress of persons who dwell at the back of his mind, a congress of all those who have taught him and whom he has admired; they constitute his ideal audience and his better self.
诚然，诗人并不直接对他的邻居说话;但是，他确实是在一个伟大的大会上发表演说，这个大会的成员都住在他的思想深处，这个大会的成员都是那些曾经教过他，他也曾钦佩过他的人;他们构成了他理想的听众和更好的自己。
I am amazed about how everyone wants to know about my love life. They whisper to me, 'Tell me the truth? Is it true?' Who cares? Because we have this job, we are to say to everybody what we do, or with whom we sleep? It's a bit absurd, but that's why everybody lies so much.
我很惊讶为什么每个人都想知道我的爱情生活。他们低声对我说:‘跟我说实话?是真的吗?“谁在乎呢?因为我们有这份工作，我们就得告诉每个人我们在做什么，或者和谁睡觉?这有点荒谬，但这就是为什么每个人都爱说谎。
For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.
对全体民众来说，变革、成长和自发性是危险的。根据个人的欲望行事，低声诉说隐藏的渴望，揭示你的真实感受——所有我们认为对一个角色至关重要的人类行为——都被自我审查，以免受到国家的惩罚。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.
衡量你价值的真正标准包括别人从你的成功中获得的所有好处。
We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.
我们学过阿克顿勋爵的格言:所有的权力都腐败，绝对的权力绝对腐败。当我开始写这些书的时候，我相信这一点，但现在我不再相信这一点了。权力并不总是腐败的。权力可以净化。我相信关于权力总是正确的是权力总是揭示。
Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.
人们常说，诗歌是人生的一面真实的镜子。但是，一只猴子在研究一部文学作品时，却找不到苏格拉底。
Life is a game and true love is a trophy.
生活是一场游戏，真爱是一座奖杯。
I am not bound to win, but i am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but i am bound to live up to what light i have.
我不一定会赢，但我一定是真实的。我不一定会成功，但我一定会不辜负我所拥有的光明。
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。