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争吵
Quarrel
The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of.
全世界普通人的生命、自由、财产和幸福完全掌握在少数几个人的手中，他们从未见过，也从未听说过复杂的争吵。
They took their meals together; and it was remarked on such occasions, when the friendship of animals is put to a hard test, that they never quarrelled or disputed the possession of a favourite fruit with each other.
他们一起吃饭;在这种场合下，当动物的友谊受到严峻的考验时，人们就会说，他们从来没有因为拥有一种最喜爱的水果而争吵或争论过。
We got ratings. It isn't that they won't quarrel with you, or say you're always right. But as long as you stay strong and the ratings are good and you're reasonable - I don't think we fought unreasonably. We basically won that right.
我们的评级。这并不是说他们不会和你争吵，或者说你总是对的。但只要你保持强势，收视率高，而且理性，我不认为我们之间的争吵是没有道理的。我们基本上赢了。
The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.
文学的功能，通过它所有的变异，一直是让我们意识到自我的特殊性，以及自我在与社会和文化的冲突中的高度权威。从这个意义上说，文学是颠覆性的。
People in Parliament occupy themselves with private animosities and petty quarrels, and think little of the national interest. It is impossible to credit the serene indifference with which they consider events outside their own country.
议会里的人忙于个人仇恨和小争吵，很少考虑国家利益。他们对自己国家以外发生的事情漠不关心，这是不可能的。
When a mother quarrels with a daughter, she has a double dose of unhappiness hers from the conflict, and empathy with her daughter's from the conflict with her. Throughout her life a mother retains this special need to maintain a good relationship with her daughter.
当一位母亲与女儿争吵时，她会因冲突而产生双倍的不快乐，并因与女儿的冲突而产生同理心。母亲在一生中都保持着与女儿保持良好关系的特殊需要。
The quarrel of the sociologists with the historians is that the latter have learned so much about how to do it that they have forgotten what to do. They have become so skilled in finding facts that they have no use for the truths that would make the facts worth finding.
社会学家和历史学家之间的争论是，历史学家学到了太多关于如何做这件事的知识，以至于他们忘记了该做什么。他们已经变得如此善于发现事实，以至于他们对那些使事实值得发现的事实毫无用处。
If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old - somebody who takes good care of things and of people.
如果哥本哈根是一个人，这个人应该慷慨，美丽，年老，但有才华。一个人有一定的争吵倾向，充满想象力，对新事物充满欲望，对旧事物充满敬意——一个能很好地照顾人和事的人。
History, real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... I read it a little as a duty; but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all - it is very tiresome.
历史，真正严肃的历史，我不可能感兴趣……我把它当作一种责任来读;但它告诉我的一切，既没有使我烦恼，也没有使我厌烦。教皇和国王的争吵，每一页都有战争和瘟疫;所有的男人都是那么一无是处，几乎没有一个女人——这是非常令人讨厌的。
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Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.
虽然在街上争吵是一件可恨的事，但其中表现出来的精力是好的;最平凡的人也会在争吵中表现出优雅。
Next to the coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.
我喜欢和一个老情人吵架，而不喜欢和一个新情妇和好如初。
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
人们通常因为不会辩理而吵架。
It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.
的确，我们软弱、病态、丑陋、好争吵，但如果我们曾经是这样的人，我们几千年前就从地球上消失了。
Is thy mother-in-law quarrelsome ? Divorce her daughter.
你岳母吵架吗?她的女儿离婚。
A fair wife and a frontier castle breed quarrels.
一个漂亮的妻子和一个边境城堡会引起争吵。