The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

  • -- Thomas Babington Macaulay 麦考莱

衡量一个人真正的品质,要看他在知道永远不会被人发现的情况下会做些什么。

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Internationalism on the other hand admits that spiritual achievements have their roots deep in national life; from this national consciousness art and literature derive their character and strength and on it even many of the humanistic sciences are firmly based.

另一方面,国际主义承认精神成就根植于民族生活;从这种民族意识中,艺术和文学产生了自己的品格和力量,甚至许多人文科学都是建立在这种民族意识的基础上的。

We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.

尽管我们有了更多的信息,但我们并没有比过去聪明多少,这意味着现在真正的技能是学习如何从这些噪音中挑选出有用的信息。

I'm proud to say that I've never had a normal job. I started doing stand-up when I was in high school, purely as a measure to never get a proper job.

我很自豪地说,我从来没有过一份正常的工作。我上高中时就开始做单口相声,纯粹是为了永远找不到一份合适的工作。

I don't live that much with the character. I find it hard enough having to spend so many hours with the character during the day.

我不怎么喜欢这个角色。我发现白天花这么多时间和这个角色在一起已经够难的了。

I always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for me.

我总是觉得电影世界令人不快。都是关于行程的,从来没有真正为我飞。

If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.

衡量一个人,如果有什么比看他做了什么更真实的话,那一定是看他付出了什么。

Real family values have gone down the drain in modern families.

在现代家庭中,真正的家庭价值观已经完全丧失了。

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

我按照我发现的政治规则行事。