Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.

  • -- Fanny Brice 布莱斯

当一个人不愿意承认他自己不愿意相信的事情时,装模作样是一个很好的词。

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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

一个高尚的人用一种高于自己的思想来比较和估计自己;一个卑鄙的人,比他自己还卑鄙。一个产生抱负;另一种野心,是一个庸俗的人所追求的。

I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy.

我不知道知道这么多有什么用,聪明得像鞭子一样,如果这一切都不能让你快乐的话。

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.

我有一个非常美好的童年,直到我九岁,然后一个经典的离婚案件真的影响了我。

A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.

一个人自己认为除了他自己的画像,其他画像都很像。

Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.

在我看来,衣着上的任何矫揉造作都暗示着理解力上的缺陷。