Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.

  • -- Lionel Trilling 特里林

我们的文化特别推崇指责行为,认为这是美德和智慧的标志。

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The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple.

艺术作为人类存在的最高反映,总是自发地满足着这种丰富性的要求。在任何文化中,没有一种成熟的艺术风格是简单的。

Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but must endlessly repeat the projection of their own desires.

那些把我们的文化说成是死亡或垂死的人与生活有争执,我认为他们不能理解它的术语,但必须无休止地重复他们自己欲望的投射。

The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.

心灵就像一幅织得很厚的织锦,其中的色彩是从感官的经验中提炼出来的,图案是从智力的错综复杂中提炼出来的。

It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.

某些所谓的波西米亚元素在我的作品中找到了一些东西,把他们独特的“垮一代”理论挂在上面,这并不是我的错。

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the non-performance of base ones.

良好的行为比卑劣的行为更能体现美德。

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

男人中有一种天生的贵族气质。其根据是美德和才能。

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

除了智力之外,还有一些其他的能力是理解现实所必需的。