Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits.

  • -- Ninette De Valois 尼特德瓦卢瓦

几乎没有一代人想要得到上一代人的全部,他们只想得到最好的部分。

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We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.

我们可以把每一代人看作是一个独特的民族,他们有权利,按照大多数人的意愿,约束自己,但没有人比另一个国家的居民更能约束后代。

There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.

任何两个人之间的差别,都不可能比同一个人、情人和丈夫之间的差别更大。

People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.

人们能够洞悉是什么在困扰着他们,但他们几乎没有做任何改变。

Fairytales are stories that span every generation and they've been around for a long time.

童话是跨越每一代人的故事,它们已经存在很长时间了。