Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.

  • -- Adlai E. Stevenson II 阿德莱·史蒂文森二世

人是一种奇怪的动物。他通常只有背靠着墙壁才能看清墙上的字迹。

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If you want to look at the state of humans, you should look at the state of animals first. People are choosing whether or not they can feed an animal and their family. And every shelter coast-to-coast is stuffed.

如果你想看看人类的状态,你应该先看看动物的状态。人们正在选择是否可以喂养动物和他们的家人。海岸到海岸的每个庇护所都挤满了人。

Upon the clothes behind the tenement, That hang like ghosts suspended from the lines, Linking each flat, but to each indifferent, Incongruous and strange the moonlight shines.

在公寓后面的衣服上,那些衣服像幽灵一样悬挂在绳子上,连接着每一间公寓,但月光照耀着每一间冷漠、不协调和奇怪的公寓。

We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

然而,我们必须承认,在我看来,这个人的所有高尚品质……他的身体上仍然带有他卑微出身的不可磨灭的印记。

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

我从健谈的人身上学会了沉默,从偏执的人身上学会了宽容,从无情的人身上学会了善良;然而,奇怪的是,我对那些老师不领情。

Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.

在所有的动物中,人类可能是唯一把自己视为美味佳肴的动物。

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

一个有荣誉的人永远不应该忘记他是谁,因为他看到别人是谁。