The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

  • -- Thomas Carlyle 托马斯·卡莱尔

一个不知名的好人所做的工作就像一条藏在地下的水脉,秘密地使地面变绿。

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I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.

我相信物质的东西可以使一个人的生活愉快,但基本上,如果你没有很好的朋友和亲戚谁对你很重要,生活将是真正的空虚和悲伤,物质的东西不再重要。

I couldn't get that same feeling during the day, with my hands in dirty dish water and the hard sun showing up the dirtiness on the roof tops. And after a time, even at night, the feeling of God didn't last.

白天,我的手浸在脏兮兮的碗碟水里,烈日当空,屋顶被晒得脏兮兮的。过了一段时间,即使是在晚上,对上帝的感觉也没有持续多久。

From the age of six I wanted to be an artist. At that point I meant a painter, but it turned out what I really meant was I was someone who was very interested in watching the world and making copies of it.

从六岁起,我就想成为一名艺术家。当时我指的是画家,但事实证明我真正的意思是我是一个对观察世界和复制世界非常感兴趣的人。

The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying.

这是否是上帝的绿色地球的问题并没有处于中心位置,除非在某种意义上,如果是这样,一个人会经常被提醒他可能正在死去。

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

在任何地方,任何地方,无论是隐藏在什么地方,无论写在什么地方,都能看到一个人的形体。如果我们想认识他,难道我们是在无所事事吗?

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

团队合作是绿湾包装工队的宗旨。他们这样做不是为了个人荣誉。他们这样做是因为他们彼此相爱。

Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness.

水天下莫柔弱于水,而攻坚强者莫之能胜,以其无以易之。

Men who consistently leave the toilet seat up secretly want women to get up to go the bathroom in the middle of the night and fall in.

经常把马桶座圈翘起来的男人会偷偷地想让女人半夜起来上厕所然后掉进去。

For the first half of your life, people tell you what you should do; for the second half, they tell you what you should have done.

在你的前半生,人们会告诉你应该做什么;在下半场,他们会告诉你应该怎么做。

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

强迫一个人为他所不相信和厌恶的思想的传播提供资金是罪恶和专制的。

Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.

逆水行舟逆水行舟逆水行舟逆水行舟逆水行舟逆水行舟逆水行舟逆水行舟逆水行舟逆水行舟

The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.

最伟大的人是塑造一个民族品味的人;下一个最伟大的是败坏它的人。

So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing.

所以其他的都没问题但是名誉是一块空的土地,不是吗?这是一种空洞的东西。

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

中年真正可怕的事情是你会从中成长起来。

I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.

我感兴趣的是艺术作为一种生活方式;不是为了谋生。

Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!

啊!毁灭的无知,该做些什么才能把你赶出这个世界呢?

I don't want to stay underground for just the cool people.

我不想只为了那些酷人呆在地下。

There's always the risk that there are unknown unknowns.

总有未知未知的风险。

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

恐惧有很多眼睛,可以看到地下的东西。

There's always some kind of hidden logic.

总有一些隐藏的逻辑。

The flesh is the surface of the unknown.

肉体是未知事物的表面。

A sly rogue is often in good dress.

狡猾的流氓常常穿着漂亮的衣服。