The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

  • -- Joseph Addison 约瑟夫·艾迪生

重要的问题不是,什么能使人获得一些分散的快乐,而是什么能使他的生活总体上幸福。

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It's important that athletes can compete on a level playing field. And youngsters coming into the sport can know that if they are working hard and training hard, they'll see a true reflection of where they stand and what they can achieve worldwide and not be swayed by people who are cheating.

运动员能在公平竞争的环境中比赛是很重要的。年轻人进入这项运动可以知道,如果他们努力工作和训练,他们会看到他们的立场和他们可以在世界范围内取得的成就的真实反映,而不是被那些作弊的人所动摇。

Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.

人类的本性是这样的,如果人们生来就有对利益的热爱,如果他们追随这些倾向,他们就会互相斗争,互相抢夺,而倾向于推迟或屈服将会消亡。

It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances.

动机的影响是否由自然规律所决定,使它们在同样的情况下总是具有同样的效果,这是一个事实问题。

I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.

我对我的写作方式很满意。我想我做得很好。但我从未真正认为自己是个作家。

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

在我们的历史上,从来没有一个人的名字值得我们铭记。

Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore.

有时候在电影中,我仍然必须成为英雄,但这对我来说不再那么重要了。

What is it like when you see me in all these films and then you meet me? Were you intimidated?

当你在所有这些电影中看到我,然后又遇见我,那是什么感觉?你害怕吗?

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

不哭泣的年轻人是野蛮人,不笑的老人是傻瓜。

I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing.

我祝你读书如写作一样愉快。

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.

要是我们不再试图快乐就好了,我们会玩得很开心。

Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?

谁说过快乐没有作用?