A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
特权
Prerogative
It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.
说出别人不会说的真理是蠢人的特权。
Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.
即使一个人只对他自己的社会感兴趣,这是他的特权,他也可以通过与他人比较来更好地理解这个社会。
Though man a thinking being is defined, Few use the grand prerogative of mind. How few think justly of the thinking few! How many never think, who think they do!
虽然人是有思想的存在,但很少有人使用心灵这一至高无上的特权。很少有人公正地看待少数人的思想!有多少人从不思考,又有多少人自以为在思考!
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.
指出皇帝没有穿衣服一直是小孩子和傻子的特权。但是,笨蛋还是笨蛋,皇帝还是皇帝。