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Today we no longer regard the universe as the cause of our own undeserved troubles but perhaps, on the contrary, as the last refuge from the mismanagement of our earthly affairs.
今天，我们不再把宇宙看作是我们自己不应该遇到的麻烦的根源，相反，也许我们把宇宙看作是我们对尘世事务管理不善的最后避难所。
It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.
令人好奇的是，一个人是如何本能地保护自己的形象不受偶像崇拜或任何其他可能使其变得荒谬的处理，或太不像最初的被相信了。
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
令人惊奇的是快乐的力量和它的耐力——快乐的人在同一时间内会做得更多，也会这么做;与其愁眉苦脸，不如长久保存。
When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.
当尤利西斯听到一个史诗诗人唱他自己的故事，然后他暴露了自己的身份，诗人想继续唱下去，尤利西斯不再感兴趣了。这是非常惊人的。
Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.
因此，私刑法在遥远的西方占据主导地位，直到文明传播到各个地区，法律的有序进程取而代之。紧急情况不再存在，私刑逐渐从西方消失。
When you turn from one room to the next, when your animal senses no longer perceive the sounds of the dishwasher, the ticking clock, the smell of a chicken roasting - the kitchen and all its seemingly discrete bits dissolve into nothingness - or into waves of probability.
当你从一个房间转到另一个房间时，当你的动物感觉不到洗碗机的声音、滴答作响的时钟、烤鸡的味道——厨房和它所有看似分散的部分都消失在虚无之中——或者变成一波又一波的可能性。
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The longer we were in it, the smaller it seemed to get.
我们在里面呆的时间越长，它看起来就越小。
If I had all the money in the world, I don't think I'd want to be in the studio for longer.
如果我有世界上所有的钱，我想我不会想在演播室里呆更长时间。
The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.
世界上儿童的数量不再增长了。我们仍在讨论石油峰值，但我们肯定已经达到了峰值。
We don't beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully.
我们战胜死神不是靠活得更久，而是靠活得更好、活得更充实。
The longer you wait for the future, the shorter it will be.
你等待未来的时间越长，它就会越短。
In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.
人老了，就像一堆别人寄来的信。我们不再是过去的我们，我们已经到来。