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Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings.

  • -- Andreas Capellanus 卡佩拉努斯

即使整个大地和大海都变成金子，也无法满足一个女人的贪婪……用指甲刮钻石比用人类的聪明才智让一个女人同意捐出她的积蓄要容易得多。

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Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.

美是一种无私的东西，没有它，古老的世界就无法理解它自己，一个词，不知不觉却又明白无误地告别了我们的新世界，一个充满利益的世界，只留下它自己的贪婪和悲哀。

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None of my actions have ever sort of been motored by the search for a husband or wondering if I was going to have a family someday or wanting to live in a really great house or thinking it would be really great to have a diamond.

我的任何行为都没有受到寻找丈夫的影响，也没有考虑过我是否有一天会成家，也没有想过住在一所很棒的房子里，更没有想过拥有一颗钻石会有多棒。

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There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.

几乎每个拓荒者的小屋都有几卷莎士比亚的作品。我记得第一次在小木屋里读到亨利五世的封建戏剧。

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The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century.

绘画艺术实际上已经消失了。几乎没有人真正拥有它。只要看看本世纪的画家就知道了。

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I can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be.

我不能满足于把我所有的想象力都用在音乐上，尤其是当音乐不再像过去那样被当作一种艺术形式来欣赏的时候。

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The laws are still very unclear. Cells are still taken from people without consent - a lot of people don't realize it.

法律仍然很不明确。细胞仍然是在未经同意的情况下从人身上提取的——很多人没有意识到这一点。

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Anybody who has any doubt about the ingenuity or the resourcefulness of a plumber never got a bill from one.

任何对水管工的独创性或足智多谋有任何怀疑的人，从来没有收到过水管工的账单。

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I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.

我从不担心饮食。我唯一感兴趣的胡萝卜是钻石的克拉数。

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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

很少有人能触及到表面，更不用说对自己经历的沉思了。

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Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job.

抓一条狗，你就会找到一份固定的工作。

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Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.

野心不过是戴着面具的高跷上的贪婪。

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Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

没有我的允许，任何人都不能伤害我。

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