I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.

  • -- Thomas Henry Huxley 赫胥黎

我抗议说,如果某个大国愿意让我永远思考什么是真的,做什么是对的,条件是把我变成一种时钟,每天早上在我起床之前就起床,那么我就应该立刻结束这个提议。

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I think the market is always going to be around. The goal is not to say, let's get rid of the market, because the market does render a huge number of services, and I don't want to have a fight about the price of something every time I buy a book or a bottle of water.

我认为市场将永远存在。我们的目标不是说,让我们摆脱市场,因为市场提供了大量的服务,我不想每次买一本书或一瓶水的时候都要为某个东西的价格而争吵。

They showed this one beautiful picture of me recently and they had all the things that I had done. I thought it was a great compliment for everybody to think I've had plastic surgery.

他们最近给我看了一张很漂亮的照片,里面有我做过的所有事情。我认为对每个人来说,我做了整容手术是一种极大的赞美。

Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter or correct conditions so that they are most favorable to you.

学会让自己适应你必须忍受的环境,但要注意改变或纠正环境,使它们对你最有利。

I can't pretend that I'm a great student of the art of comedy because anybody that becomes philosophical about humour doesn't know what he's talking about.

我不能假装自己是喜剧艺术的好学生,因为任何一个对幽默持哲学态度的人都不知道自己在说什么。

Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.

我们一时的困难必须以某种方式加以解决,但是我们永久的困难是每时每刻的困难。

I don't want to sound smug but I am reasonably satisfied with how it's gone. I think it's fine.

我不想听起来沾沾自喜,但我对事情的进展相当满意。我觉得挺好的。

I'm very much a typical midwesterner, and I don't think the condition is curable.

我是一个典型的中西部人,我认为这种情况是无法治愈的。

A little consideration, a little thought for other makes all the difference.

多一点体谅,多一点为别人着想,就会有天壤之别。

I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop.

我每天早上起床,折磨打字机直到它发出尖叫,然后停下来。

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

任何一座城市都不应该大到一个人早上走不出去。

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

对于大多数人来说,他们认定自己有多幸福,就有多幸福。

I've always internalized things.

我总是把事情内在化。