Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.

  • -- Lionel Trilling 特里林

当误解把别人当作一种优势时,一个人是无法使别人理解自己的。

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We should increase our development of alternative fuels, taking advantage of renewable resources, like using corn and sugar to produce ethanol or soybeans to produce biodiesel.

我们应该加强替代燃料的开发,利用可再生资源,比如用玉米和糖生产乙醇,或者用大豆生产生物柴油。

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

理解并不能治愈邪恶,但它确实是一种帮助,因为一个人可以应对一种可以理解的黑暗。

Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war.

很少有人敢否认节制在提高一个处于战争状态的国家的效率方面的好处。

My understanding is that Olivia had no idea what was going on.

我的理解是奥利维亚根本不知道发生了什么。

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

当个人感到无助时,社会就会早早地发动攻击。

I've never been helpless, I just have powerful enemies.

我从来没有无助过,我只是有强大的敌人。