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文学
Literature
When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.
当我阅读伟大的文学作品、伟大的戏剧、演讲或布道时，我觉得人类的心灵除了通过语言来分享情感和思想外，没有取得任何更大的成就。
It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.
说没有人会吹嘘自己对文学的无知几乎已经成了陈词滥调，但吹嘘自己对科学的无知、自豪地宣称自己在数学方面的无能是可以被社会接受的。
Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted.
伟大的文学必须产生于作者灵魂的剧变。如果这种剧变不存在，那么它一定来自任何其他作者的作品，而这些作品恰好是方便和容易改编的。
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
对于那些真正喜欢研究人的人来说，小说比其他任何一种文学形式都更有趣的原因在于，在小说中，作者可以真实地说出真相，而不会让自己蒙羞。
What hadn't been realized in the literature until now is that merely to describe how severely something has been tested in the past itself embodies inductive assumptions, even as a statement about the past.
直到现在，在文献中还没有意识到的是，仅仅描述过去某件事被测试的严重程度本身就包含了归纳假设，甚至是对过去的陈述。
During our stay in London for the first time I was able to establish personal contact with some of the organic chemists, whose work I knew and admired from the literature. I found them most gracious and helpful.
在伦敦逗留期间，我第一次与一些有机化学家建立了个人联系，我从文献中了解并欣赏他们的工作。我发现他们非常和蔼可亲，乐于助人。
Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or anything else, is always a portrait of himself, and the more he tries to conceal himself the more clearly will his character appear in spite of him.
每个人的工作，无论是文学、音乐、绘画还是其他任何工作，都是自己的一幅画像，他越想隐藏自己，他的性格就越会在不顾自己的情况下清晰地显现出来。
There's a wealth of literature out there which, hopefully, will be, you know, exploded in the future, and I personally find it very rewarding to be involved with classic storytelling, and sort of legendary characters.
那里有大量的文学作品，你知道，希望在未来会爆炸，我个人觉得参与到经典的故事叙述和传奇人物中是非常有益的。
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
文学为现实添彩，而不是简单地描述现实。它丰富了日常生活所需和提供的必要能力;在这方面，它灌溉着我们的生活已经变成沙漠的土地。
Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
你是否只从那些仰慕你、温柔待你、支持你的人身上吸取了教训?那些与你争竞，与你争竞的，岂不是给你大教训吗?
In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write?
在文学史上，有许多伟大而不朽的作品，是作者生前没有发表过的。如果作者在写作中没有得到自我肯定，又怎么能继续写作呢?
It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or to those who, like Paley, purify it, stamp it, fix its real value, and give it currency and utility.
值得怀疑的是，人类是否最感激那些像培根和巴特勒那样从文学宝库中挖掘黄金的人，还是最感激那些像佩利那样净化它、盖章、确定它的真正价值并赋予它货币和效用的人。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Literature is the question minus the answer.
文学就是问题减去答案。
Literature is what's left standing after the storm.
文学是风暴过后留下来的东西。
The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.
艺术和文学的支柱，就像战争的支柱一样，是金钱。
Literature...is lonely and waited for, brilliant and pure and frightened, a marriage of birds, a conversation of the blind.
文学……孤独与等待，灿烂与纯洁与恐惧，一场鸟的婚礼，一场盲人的对话。
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.
在过去的四五百年里，欧洲人与非洲的接触产生了大量的文学作品，这些作品把非洲描述得非常糟糕，用非常耸人听闻的语言描述非洲人。其原因与为奴隶贸易和奴隶制辩护的需要有关。
Sometimes two people have to fall apart, to realize how much they need to fall back together.
有时候两个人必须分开，才能意识到他们有多需要重新在一起。