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缺点
Faults
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
很少有人有足够的勇气承认自己的错误，或有足够的决心改正它们。
There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.
以一种令人愉快的方式，几乎没有一种个人缺点不能使人逐渐适应。
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。
It's easy to see the faults in people I know; it's hardest to see the good. Especially when the good isn't there.
我很容易看出我认识的人的缺点;很难看到好的一面。尤其是在没有好东西的时候。
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。
We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.
我们渴望一种全然不知道自己缺点的感情。天赐给我们这种不加批判的犬类依恋。
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。
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.
同样值得提醒老师的是，纠正错误的过分严厉有时会使一个男孩打消努力的念头。
Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.
当你醒着的时候，想想自己的错误，当你睡着的时候，想想别人的错误。
The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.
一个优秀的人的缺点就像太阳和月亮一样。他们也有缺点，人人都看得出来;他们改变了，每个人都尊敬他们。
Do not think of your faults, still less of others' faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.
不要想自己的缺点，更不要想别人的缺点;寻找什么是好的和强大的，并试图模仿它。你们的过犯，到了时候，必如枯叶落下。
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。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.
如果伴郎的缺点写在他的额头上，他会用帽子遮住眼睛。
The essence of a man is found in his faults.
人的本质在于他的缺点。
I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
我有我的缺点，但改变态度不是其中之一。
By others' faults wise men correct their own.
智者从别人的错误中改正自己的错误。
Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
对待别人的错误要像对待自己的错误一样温柔。
Every fool can find faults that a great many wise men can't remedy.
每个傻瓜都能发现许多聪明人无法弥补的错误。