When white-collar people get jobs, they sell not only their time and energy, but their personalities as well. They sell by week, or month, their smiles and their kindly gestures, and they must practise prompt repression of resentment and aggression.

  • -- C. Wright Mills 米尔斯

当白领找工作时,他们不仅出卖自己的时间和精力,也出卖自己的个性。他们以周为周期,以月为周期出售他们的微笑和友好的姿态,他们必须迅速压制怨恨和侵略。

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I think you always need to try your best, but at the same time you can only do what you can do, and you don't need to beat yourself up about it.

我认为你总是需要尽你最大的努力,但同时你只能做你能做的,你不需要为此而自责。

When people say England, they sometimes mean Great Britain, sometimes the United Kingdom, sometimes the British Isles, - but never England.

当人们说英格兰时,他们有时指的是大不列颠,有时指的是联合王国,有时指的是不列颠群岛,但从来没有指过英格兰。

For the first time in my life I feel important. I'd like to have five babies.

我有生以来第一次感到自己很重要。我想要五个孩子。

You can't just yell jokes at people.

你不能只是对别人大吼大叫。