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Fault
Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.
我们最大的缺点是过于在意别人的缺点。
The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
缺席者总是有缺点的。也不是没有借口的现在。
Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.
明天,每一个错误都要改正;但是明天永远不会到来。
Find not fault with one another, neither revile one another by nicknames.
你们不可彼此指责,也不可彼此辱骂。
The unions may continue to decline, but if they do, it'll be their fault.
工会可能会继续衰落,但如果他们衰落了,那将是他们的错。
The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
伟大作家的缺点通常是杰出到过分的地步。
And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
常常为自己的过失辩解,反而会使过失愈演愈烈。
Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.
我们乐意使别人十全十美,但我们不能改正自己的错误。
Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
只有大自然才知道如何使过错与应得的惩罚成正比例。
People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault.
那些认为自己对错误很慷慨的人通常认为那是他们唯一的错误。
Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.
敢于做真实的自己。什么都不需要谎言:一个最需要谎言的错误,就会因此滋长两个。
This claustrophobia was the only weakness I had. It's not my fault. It's just in my mind.
这种幽闭恐惧症是我唯一的弱点。这不是我的错。这只是我的想法。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with it.
如果学校生活中的每一天都是最后一天,那也没什么可挑剔的。
Of course in war all madnesses come out in a man, that is the fault of war not of a man or a nation.
当然,在战争中,所有的气质都来自于一个人,这不是战争的过错,也不是一个人或一个国家的过错。
If I'm in danger then it's usually my fault and it's up to me to get myself out of it. I am not in it just to get an adrenalin rush. No way!
如果我处于危险中,那通常是我的错,我要自己摆脱它。我这样做不是为了刺激肾上腺素。没门!
Find fault with thyself rather than with others.
找自己的错,而不是找别人的错。
Bear patiently that which thou sufferest by thine own fault.
要忍耐你因自己的过犯所受的苦。
Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it's not your own making. When you have a plane crash, it's not your fault.
有时候,厄运就像古希腊悲剧一样降临到你头上,而这并不是你自己造成的。飞机失事不是你的错。