A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

  • -- Samuel Butler 塞缪尔巴特勒

一个人应该有足够的文化修养,能够以怀疑的眼光看待文化,而不是二手的。

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The poor man starves while they are grassing their royal mountain stags or shooting peasants and partridges in their purblind pomp of pelf and power.

穷人挨饿,而他们却在给他们的皇家公鹿割草,或者在他们盲目炫耀权势的时候射杀农民和鹧鸪。

There's no way to be able to tell what it's like to be a country singer until you're walking in the shoes.

除非你穿上这双鞋,否则你不可能知道当乡村歌手是什么感觉。

I'd like to be able to light the fire a little bit.

我想把火点旺一点。

He was a great thundering paradox of a man.

他是一个非常自相矛盾的人。