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占有
Possession
The greatest possession is self-possession.
最大的拥有就是拥有自己。
The wavering mind is but a base possession.
动摇的心不过是一种卑劣的占有。
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
爱不是占有，而是给予自由。
A sparrow in hand is worth a pheasant that flieth by.
手中的麻雀胜过身边飞过的野鸡。
Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.
听我话的、认识我的、就作我的子民、永得为业。
Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.
对拥有的对象不负有义务的占有接近幸福。
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
幸福不在于拥有，也不在于拥有，幸福寓于灵魂。
A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.
一个人可能像拥有一座城市一样拥有真理，但却被迫投降。
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.
财富带给我们的快乐不如拥有它带给我们的快乐，而是失去它带给我们的痛苦。
Possession of material riches, without inner peace, is like dying of thirst while bathing in a lake.
拥有物质财富而没有内心的平静，就像在湖里洗澡时渴死一样。
Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession.
的确，每当一种新思想出现时，例如气球，战争就会立即占据上风。
Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another.
衣服应该看起来像女人与生俱来的。这是一种占有的形式，属于彼此。
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The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.
在世界范围内，拥有专断的权力总是不可抗拒地破坏人类的感性、宽宏大量和真理。
Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather, take possession of what is my birthright, my inheritance.
每次我离开家很长一段时间，我觉得我好像要征服世界。求你将我长子的名分，就是我的产业，夺过来。
An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.
一种焦虑不安的不安，一种对利益的强烈渴望已经占领了商业界，在某些情况下，人类生活中最宝贵和永久的财富已被疯狂地牺牲，以换取一时的富裕。
The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
对拥有的欲望是永不满足的，以至于它可以生存，甚至爱本身。因此，爱，就是让所爱的人绝育。
Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.
人不应该把自己的物质财富看作是自己的，而应该看作是所有人共有的，以便在别人需要的时候毫不犹豫地分享。