The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.

  • -- Thomas Henry Huxley 赫胥黎

在最好的时代,最优秀的人只不过是那些犯最少的错误,犯最少的罪的人。

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There were nine children in my father's family and eight in my mother's. My grandparents did the best with what they had. After the Depression, they were scratching out a living and working hard. They kept the family going.

我父亲家有九个孩子,母亲家有八个。我的祖父母用他们所拥有的做得最好。大萧条之后,他们勉强糊口,努力工作。他们维持着这个家庭。

There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter.

我能想到的只有一种情况,那就是男性和女性都努力比平时读得更好。而是当他们坠入爱河,读情书的时候。

I've lived my life in a way that I feel would be an example to young women and I've always given my best in everything I've tried.

我觉得我的生活方式会成为年轻女性的榜样,我总是尽我所能做到最好。

You use simple brushstrokes in a screenplay for things over which you would take much greater pains in a novel.

你在剧本中使用简单的笔触,而在小说中,你会为之付出更大的努力。

The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.

通往自由社会的道路并不简单。我们的历史上有悲剧和辉煌的篇章。

Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.

员工是最好的约会对象。你不必把它们捡起来,而且它们总是可以免税的。

War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.

战争使我们这些住在地球上的平凡小人物变成了奇怪的庞然大物。

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

对于大多数人来说,他们认定自己有多幸福,就有多幸福。