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Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate. The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had. He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.

  • -- Al Franken 弗兰肯

是啊，我们一出校门就搬起石头砸了自己的脚。一开始经营这家公司的人在我们有多少资本的问题上误导了几乎所有人。他说我们有足够的钱过三年不赚钱的日子，也有足够的钱过三个星期。

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We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.

我们生活在机器时代。历史上，喜剧演员第一次被迫为自己提供笑话和喜剧素材来与机器竞争。不管他知不知道，这位喜剧演员都在跑步机上逐渐被人遗忘。

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Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

智慧是知识的正确运用。知道并不等于明智。许多人懂得很多，却都是大傻瓜。再大的傻瓜也比不上有知识的傻瓜。但知道如何运用知识就是拥有智慧。

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It was deemed a disgrace not to get drunk at Christmas; and he was regarded as lazy indeed, who had not provided himself with the necessary means, during the year, to get whisky enough to last him through Christmas.

在圣诞节不喝醉被认为是一种耻辱;他确实被认为是一个懒惰的人，在这一年里，他没有为自己提供足够的威士忌来度过圣诞节。

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There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

获得智慧有三种方法。第一种是反射，反射是最高的。第二个是限制，这是最简单的。第三是经验，这是最痛苦的。

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I like new ballets because they're totally new. As you get older, new experiences are harder and harder to come by, so it's pretty great to have a new experience.

我喜欢新的芭蕾舞剧，因为它们是全新的。随着年龄的增长，新的经历越来越难获得，所以有一个新的经历是非常棒的。

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I haven't travelled that much before so this is the first time I get to see the big cities of Europe. I've never even been to US.

我以前没去过那么多地方，所以这是我第一次看到欧洲的大城市。我从没去过我们家。

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If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'

如果我能给你三个字的建议，那就是:“说实话。”如果我还有三个字，我会加上，“一直”。

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Do I catch flak because I'm so much smarter than everyone else? I don't know.

我被炮轰是因为我比别人聪明吗?我不知道。

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Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.

文明对我来说有太多的规则，所以我尽我最大的努力重写它们。

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The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second.

第一个情人在没有第二个情人的时候，可以维持很长一段时间。

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Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.

任何东西喝得太多都是不好的，但喝得太多的好威士忌还不够。

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If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.

如果你不知道如何问正确的问题，你将一无所获。

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I fall too fast, crash too hard, forgive too easy, and care too much.

我摔得太快，摔得太重，原谅得太容易，关心得太多。

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Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

棒球多年来一直在变化。它变得温和。

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We stayed in some pretty shabby places in Europe.

我们住在欧洲一些相当破旧的地方。

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