It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

  • -- Thomas Alva Edison 托马斯·阿尔瓦·爱迪生

令人惊讶的是,对于许多人来说,把他们的大脑完全地、系统地投入到工作中似乎是一项多么大的努力。

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I have to confess that I have so rarely experienced triumph that I cannot claim to know it well enough to judge, but it seems to be at best a momentary joy followed instantly by sadness, and, then, of necessity, by wariness.

我必须承认,我很少经历过胜利,因此我不能说我很清楚地知道胜利的意义,但它充其量不过是短暂的快乐之后紧接着是悲伤,然后必然是警惕。

Never the less, it is no light thing to enter into a profession absolutely foreign and alien to the people among which one's lot is cast; a profession which seems as dim and faraway and unreal as the shores of Europe.

然而,从事一种与自己命运攸关的人民完全陌生的职业并不是一件轻松的事;这个职业就像欧洲海岸一样模糊、遥远、虚幻。

Sometimes people who had been together for a long time got to imagining that things used to be better, even when they weren't.

有时候,在一起很长一段时间的人开始想象过去的事情会变得更好,即使事实并非如此。

People who want to hate you can find something in you they don't like. They have a talent for doing that.

想恨你的人可以在你身上找到他们不喜欢的东西。他们有这样做的天赋。