A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
缺点
Faults
A fault denied is twice committed.
被否认的错误会再犯一次。
Faults are beauties in a lover's eye.
情人眼里出西施。
Everyone puts his faults on the times.
每个人都把自己的错误归咎于时代。
The essence of a man is found in his faults.
人的本质在于他的缺点。
By others' faults wise men correct their own.
智者从别人的错误中改正自己的错误。
I know my faults, but I'm comfortable with me.
我知道我的缺点,但我对自己很满意。
If thou seest ought amiss, mend it in thyself.
如果你看到有什么不对的地方,就自己改正。
Bad men excuse their faults; good men abandon them.
坏人为他们的错误辩解;好人抛弃他们。
We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues.
我们更多的是被自己的缺点所束缚,而不是美德。
Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
每个人在他的一生中都要感谢他的错误。
My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.
我的朋友会私下告诉我我的缺点。
All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.
凡有十全十美的坦白的人,他的过失都是可以原谅的。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.
消除舞台客车上的缺陷也许能制造出一辆完美的舞台客车,但不太可能制造出第一辆汽车。
I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
我不反对从头到尾都过同样的生活:只要求作者有优势,在第二版中改正第一版的错误。
Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
爱情对缺点总是盲目的,对欢乐总是倾斜的。无法无天,长着翅膀,没有束缚,打破了所有思想的枷锁。
While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.
当傻瓜逃避一套错误时,他们会碰到另一套错误。
We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
我们承认自己的小错误,只是为了让别人相信我们没有大错误。
Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
人的一切行为中,悔改是最神圣的。所有错误中最大的错误是意识不到任何错误。