And all my endeavours are unlucky explorers come back, abandoning the expedition; the specimens, the lilies of ambition still spring in their climate, still unpicked; but time, time is all I lacked to find them, as the great collectors before me.

  • -- Keith Douglas 基思·道格拉斯

我所有的努力都是不幸的探险者放弃探险回来;标本,野心的百合花还在生长,还没有采摘;但是,时间,时间是我所缺少的一切来找到他们,作为伟大的收藏家在我之前。

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I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our devoted attention, not our divided attention.

我认为,对儿童最好的服务是最接近儿童的服务,那些受到忽视、虐待或遗弃的儿童也不应成为官僚主义的受害者。他们值得我们全神贯注,而不是分散注意力。

The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.

总的来说,传记和自传比过去二十年的小说更令人印象深刻,但其中那些怪异的畅销书最不可能经受住时间的考验。

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

在我看来,共识似乎是抛弃所有信仰、原则、价值观和政策的过程。所以没有人相信,也没有人反对。

I have one desire now to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.

我现在有一个心愿,就是要为主过放荡不羁的生活,把我所有的精力和力量都放在这上面。

This strategy represents our policy for all time. Until it's changed.

这一战略始终代表着我们的政策。直到发生了变化。

Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character.

犯罪是社会为抛弃品格所付出的代价。