The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

  • -- Marcus Tullius Cicero 西塞罗

聪明人受理智的指导,平庸的人受经验的指导,愚蠢的人受需要的指导,野蛮的人受本能的指导。

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I think England has served me very well. I like living in London for the reasons I gave. I have absolutely no intentions of cutting those ties. There is absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly not, so that I can have a swimming pool and a palm tree.

我认为英格兰对我很好。我喜欢住在伦敦是因为我给出的理由。我绝对没有切断这些联系的意图。完全没有理由这样做。当然不是,这样我就可以有一个游泳池和一棵棕榈树。

Whatever the reason is, I hope we can finish talking about the Olympics. It's gone, it's behind us. The schedule wasn't proper for players who went there and there is some fatigue in a lot guys' play right now.

不管是什么原因,我希望我们能结束对奥运会的讨论。它不见了,它在我们身后。赛程不适合去那里的球员,现在很多球员都有些疲劳。

A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two.

我思考的关键一直是近乎狂热地相信我所从事的是一种文学艺术形式。我想,这种信念是自我和必然性的结合。

If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.

如果面包是生活的第一必需品,那么娱乐紧随其后。