Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.

生活是一件美好的事情，可以谈论，也可以在历史书中读到——但是当一个人不得不生活的时候，它是可怕的。

Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another.

生活本来就不容易。处于高位或低位是很难接受的。我想我是宿命论者。我认为，你必须有历史感，才能在这些事情中生存下来……生活是一个接一个的危机。

Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and the demands of others.

就像她们的个人生活一样，女性的历史也是支离破碎、支离破碎的;人类存在的阴影历史是由他人的努力和需求塑造的。

Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.

人类幸福、和平与繁荣的小岛在这个历史时期是如此不同寻常，以至于我甚至不确定我们能否从中吸取教训。

Lots of models have played mermaids throughout history and it is, kind of, a funny rite of passage.

历史上有很多模特都扮演过美人鱼，这是一种有趣的仪式。

Make the most of yourself for that is all there is of you.

做最好的自己，因为这就是你的全部。

Man is history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind.

人是创造历史的动物，他既不能重复自己的过去，也不能把它抛诸脑后。

Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.

人们在屏幕上冷漠地看着自己的历史，偶尔也会闪过一丝恐惧或愤怒。

Matthew being a constant attendant on our Lord, his history is an account of what he saw and heard; and, being influenced by the Holy Spirit, his history is entitled to the utmost degree of credibility.

马太一直侍奉我们的主，他的历史就是他所见所闻的见证;而且，由于受到圣灵的影响，他的历史被赋予了最大程度的可信性。

Maybe it's just, I've always been to the less traveled places, in any topic, whether it's history, I always like to just choose the most obscure topic. And I don't know why I have that impulse. I can't really explain it but I've been doing that since I was a little kid.

也许只是，我总是去人迹罕至的地方，在任何话题上，无论是历史，我总是喜欢选择最模糊的话题。我不知道我为什么会有这种冲动。我真的无法解释，但我从很小的时候就开始这么做了。

Memoirs are the backstairs of history.

回忆录是历史的阶梯。

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

人们从历史的教训中学不到多少，而这是所有历史教训中最重要的。

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

男人创造历史，而不是反过来。在没有领导的时期，社会停滞不前。当勇敢、有技巧的领导者抓住机会把事情变得更好时，就会有进步。

Might does not make right, it only makes history.

强权不等于公理，强权只会创造历史。

Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history.

米尔斯坚持认为，社会学家应该把传记和历史结合起来研究。