When a man sees something desirable, he must reflect on the fact that with time it could come to involve what is detestable. When he sees something that is beneficial, he should reflect that sooner or later it, too, could come to involve harm.

  • -- Xunzi 荀子

当一个人看到他想要的东西时,他必须思考这样一个事实:随着时间的推移,它可能涉及到可憎的东西。当他看到有益的事情时,他应该意识到迟早它也会带来危害。

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As long as women are in the work force making their own money and decisions, men are going to have to realize that this way of life is here to stay - because it takes two incomes to make it and more now. The sooner you address your style of saving and spending with your mate the better off your relationship will be.

只要女性还在劳动大军中,自己挣钱,自己做决定,男性就必须意识到这种生活方式是存在的——因为它需要两份甚至更多的收入才能实现。你越早处理好你和伴侣的储蓄和消费方式,你们的关系就会越好。

For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command and find that they control their own time, when they learn their own voice and authority.

对于那些迟早会幸运地脱离群体的男人来说,最令人陶醉的时刻是,他们不再是受他人支配的躯体,而是发现自己掌握了自己的时间,学会了自己的声音和权威。

Mistakes are the best teachers. One does not learn from success. It is desirable to learn vicariously from other people's failures, but it gets much more firmly seared in when they are your own.

错误是最好的老师。人不能从成功中学到东西。从别人的失败中学习是可取的,但当别人的失败成为你自己的失败时,你会更加深刻地体会到这一点。

The measure would set criminal penalties, the same as those that would apply if harm or death happened to the pregnant woman, for those who harm a fetus.

该措施将对伤害胎儿的人设定刑事处罚,与孕妇遭受伤害或死亡时适用的刑罚相同。

When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.

当你发现自己的优点时,要坚定地赞同它。当你发现自己有邪恶时,把它当作可憎的东西来鄙视。

Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end.

许多忧郁已降临到人类身上,我憎恶强权终将胜利。

It took me a long time to reach the decision to retire, actually, from the Art Ensemble.

事实上,我花了很长时间才决定从艺术团退休。

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

把建造鸡舍和建造大教堂看作是同样可取的。

There is no harm in repeating a good thing.

重复一件好事没有害处。

The trouble is you think you have time.

问题是你认为你有时间。