You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.

  • -- Conor Cruise O'Brien 柯纳·库鲁斯·布莱恩

你可以放心地向联合国呼吁,因为它肯定会使你失望。

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So, you can set up an orchestra down this end of the railway station playing one particular area, and simultaneously at the other end something completely different going on. And in the middle they meet, or not, depending.

所以,你可以在火车站的这一端组建一个管弦乐队演奏一个特定的区域,同时在另一端演奏一些完全不同的东西。在中间它们相遇,或者不相遇,这取决于。

Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.

如今,持有现金等价物的人感觉很舒服。他们不应该。他们选择了一种糟糕的长期资产,这种资产几乎不支付任何费用,而且肯定会贬值。

A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.

孩子对新玩具的兴趣吸引了他们对拥有和占有的渴望:玩具的吸引力不在于它们的用途,而在于它们作为财产的地位。

If I have any particular appeal to women, maybe it's because I listen more than other guys do and appreciate how they think and feel about things.

如果我对女人有什么特别的吸引力,也许是因为我比其他男人更善于倾听,欣赏他们的想法和感受。

To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.

对我来说,真正的男子气概和女性气质的定义是能够舒服地躺在自己的皮肤里。

I have ideas written down some places, but usually I can't find them. I'm not very organized.

我有一些想法写在一些地方,但通常我找不到它们。我不是很有条理。