If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

  • -- Ralph Waldo Emerson 拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生

如果星星每千年只出现一个晚上,人们会多么惊奇和凝视。

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I am often drawn to what appear at first to be 'dark' or 'difficult' subjects, but which, upon further examination, are always and only reflections of the ways human beings attempt, however clumsily, badly, or well, to connect with others.

我常常被那些乍一看是“黑暗”或“困难”的学科所吸引,但经过进一步研究,这些学科总是而且只是人类试图与他人联系的方式的反映,无论这种联系是多么笨拙、糟糕还是良好。

The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.

对一个人来说,最好的书并不总是那些智者推荐的书,而是那些能满足他特殊需求的书,能满足他头脑中自然的渴望,因此能唤起兴趣,吸引思想。

The god, it would appear, was frequently thought of as the physical progenitor or first father of his people.

看来,神常常被认为是他的子民的身体祖先或始祖。

A man conducts himself abroad as he has been taught at home.

一个人在国外的行为举止就像他在国内受到的教育一样。