Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.

  • -- William Godwin 威廉·葛德文

有欲望的学习是真正的活动;没有欲望,它只是活动的表象和嘲弄。

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Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.

许多男人被一个女人表面上的痛苦所深深打动;他们以痛苦的表情来寻找坚贞或爱的迹象。

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.

世界永远是对自己的讽刺;每时每刻,它都是对它所假装的东西的嘲弄和矛盾。

Desire is suffering. A simple equation, and a nice catchphrase. But flipped around, it is more troubling: suffering is desire.

欲望是痛苦。一个简单的方程式,一句漂亮的口头禅。但反过来说,更令人不安的是:痛苦就是欲望。

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

对知识的渴望就像对财富的渴望一样,随着知识的获得而与日俱增。

I've always been passionate about geometry and the study of three-dimensional forms.

我一直对几何和三维形式的研究充满热情。

It would be mockery to call such dreariness heaven at all.

把这样沉闷的地方叫做天堂,简直是一种嘲弄。

I had gone to school to study marine biology.

我上学是为了学习海洋生物学。