Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
你们心目中的每一个英雄,都有一番悲壮史。
Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people
who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm but the harm does not interest them.
世上一半的伤害是由想证明自己重要的人造成的。他们并非有意伤害但是伤害从来跟他们同行。
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
旅游是对偏见、执拗和狭隘最有效的矫正。
A profound unmitigated loneliness is the only truth of life.
深度而彻底的孤独是生命的本质。
"When you marry the right woman, you are "complete". If you marry the wrong woman, you are "finished". And, when the right one catches you with the wrong one, you are "completely finished". His answer received a
five minute standing ovation.
如果你娶了一个合适的女人,就万事大吉了(you are complete);如果娶了不合适的女人,你就完蛋了(you are finished)。而当合适的那个看到你同不合适的那个在一起,你就彻底完蛋了(completely finished)。全场起立五分钟为他对“complete”和“finish”二词的解释鼓掌。
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not
fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
生产的每一个枪支,发明的每一种武器,发射的每一颗火箭,最终都是从饥饿待食、从受冻待衣的人群中的窃取。
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
教导孩子崇敬那些持有共同想法而非不同想法的人,无疑会毁掉那个孩子。
Every saint has a past and every sinner a future.
每个圣人都有过去,每个罪人都有明天。
If the rich could hire someone else to die for them, the poor would make a wonderful living.
如果富人可以雇人为他们去死,穷人就有好日子过了。
What I like in a good author isn't what he says, but what he whispers.
我喜欢好作家不是因为他高声说了什么,而是因为他低语了什么 。
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