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争吵
Quarrel
Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.
许多我们称之为邪恶的东西,其实都是善的伪装;我们不应轻率地与尚未理解的逆境争吵,也不应忽视其中往往蕴含的仁慈。
It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
事实上,只要一个人就能吵架。绵羊通过赞成素食主义的决议是没有用的,而狼仍然持有不同的意见。
We would not have our country's vigour exhausted or her moral force abated, by everlasting meddling and muddling in every quarrel, great and small, which afflicts the world.
我们不会让我们国家的活力耗尽,也不会让它的道德力量减弱,因为我们不会无休止地干预和搅乱每一场折磨世界的大大小小的争吵。
Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by judicial procedure, is looked upon much more seriously than it was formerly.
人们对生命的尊重要高得多,无论是私下争吵还是通过司法程序,对待生命的态度都比以往严肃得多。
An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.
从最伟大的国家联盟到市镇会议或法衣室,从来没有存在过一种不互相争吵的人的联盟。
Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but must endlessly repeat the projection of their own desires.
那些把我们的文化说成是死亡或垂死的人与生活有争执,我认为他们不能理解它的术语,但必须无休止地重复他们自己欲望的投射。
He’s a great quarreller, and but that he hath the gift of a coward to allay the gust he hath in quarrelling, ’tis thought among the prudent he would quickly have the gift of a grave.
他是一个好争吵的人,但是他却有一个懦夫的天赋来缓和他在争吵中所带来的阵风。
Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.
因此,任何遵循这一本性并屈服于其国家的人都将陷入争吵和冲突,并违反社会的惯例和规则,最终成为罪犯。
How horrible, fantastic, incredible, it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing.
我们应该在这里挖战壕,戴上防毒面具,因为在一个遥远的国家,我们一无所知的人们之间发生了一场争吵。
Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
还有比这更愚蠢的事吗?一个人住在河的另一边,他的统治者和我的统治者发生了争吵,而我却没有和他争吵过。
I think it was very impertinent of him to write to you at all, and very hypocritical. I hate such false friends. Why could not he keep on quarrelling with you, as his father did before him?
我认为他写信给你,既没有礼貌,又很虚伪。我讨厌这种虚伪的朋友。为什么他不能像他父亲在他之前那样,继续和你争吵呢?
Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
家庭争吵是痛苦的事情。他们不按任何规则去。它们不像疼痛或伤口,它们更像皮肤上的裂缝,不会愈合,因为没有足够的材料。
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A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.
当夫妻双方通常同时感到有必要争吵时,他们是很合适的一对。
Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
大多数争吵都是不可避免的;令人难以置信的。
If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
如果我们在过去和现在之间展开一场争吵,我们会发现我们已经失去了未来。
Lovers' quarrels increase love.
恋人之间的争吵增加了爱情。
From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
最可怕的争吵有时起于最轻微的言语。
Two men quarreling do not share the same seat on a canoe.
两个人在独木舟上吵架,不能坐在同一个座位上。