Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

  • -- Randolph Bourne 蓝道夫·伯尔那

很少有人能触及到表面,更不用说对自己经历的沉思了。

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The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass.

戏剧的作用是锻炼,也可能是耗尽人类的情感。喜剧的目的是把这些情感逗乐成轻松的表现;的悲剧,给他们带来了伤痛和宽慰的泪水。厌恶和恐惧是罗盘的另两个指针。

I damaged all the complicated bits of the brain to do with processing and emotional control. I was prey to every single emotion that swept over me and I couldn't deal with it. I had to re-learn things from scratch.

我破坏了大脑中所有与处理和情绪控制有关的复杂部分。我被每一种席卷全身的情绪所折磨,我无法处理它。我必须从头开始重新学习。

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

他读了很多书,如果有人想到他的长寿的话;但他的沉思远远超过了阅读。他常说,如果他读的书和别人一样多,他就不会比别人知道得更多。

The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.

思想是由题材的多样性和多样性来锻炼的,而性格是由对美德和邪恶的沉思来塑造的。

Every prime minister ... has the responsibility to provide security for his people.

每一位首相……有责任为他的人民提供安全保障。

Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege.

剥开悲观主义者的外衣,你会发现他们往往是特权的捍卫者。

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.

客人就像鱼一样,过了三天就开始发臭。