Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.

  • -- Ambrose Bierce 比尔斯

悼词。对一个人的赞扬,这个人要么拥有财富和权力的优势,要么认为自己已经死了。

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There is a great advantage in training under unfavorable conditions. It is better to train under bad conditions, for the difference is then a tremendous relief in a race.

在不利条件下训练有很大的优势。在恶劣的条件下训练是最好的,因为这样的差别在比赛中是一个巨大的解脱。

We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who is only a beater of rhythm.

我们需要改进演出风格。演奏和指挥的音乐家并不比只懂节奏的击球手更有优势。

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

卓越通常鼓励一个人对生活的追求;它显示了世界的精神财富。

A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.

葬礼悼词是在证据确凿后为被告辩护的迟来的请求。

The real measure of our wealth is how much we should be worth if we lost all our money.

衡量我们财富的真正标准是,如果我们失去了所有的钱,我们应该值多少钱。

Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise not blame.

心不喜褒贬,心不喜责备。

Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise.

对公众人物的不公正的攻击比不应该得到的赞扬对他们更有好处。

Eulogy is nice, but one does not learn anything from it.

悼词是好的,但是人们却不能从中学到任何东西。