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If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

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

如果舌头不是为了发音而被造出来的，人在森林里还是野兽。

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A street thug and a paid killer are professionals - beasts of prey, if you will, who have dissociated themselves from the rest of humanity and can now see human beings in the same way that trout fishermen see trout.

街头暴徒和职业杀手都是职业杀手——如果你愿意，可以说是食肉动物，它们已经脱离了人类，现在可以像钓鳟鱼的渔民那样看待人类。

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Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

我认为，人的不幸来自于他的伟大;因为在他里面有一种无限，他虽然很狡猾，却不能把它完全埋葬在有限之中。

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A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.

野兽不知道自己是野兽，人越接近野兽，就越不知道自己是野兽。

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If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees.

如果你砍伐了一片森林，如果没有更多的树，你拥有多少锯木厂都没有关系。

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Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous.(He is also a fool.)

勇气是恐惧的补充。无所畏惧的人不会有勇气。(他也是个傻瓜。)

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The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.

翻页书的想法仍然吸引着我。小说和非小说的概念。

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Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

有些人穿过森林，却没有看到柴火。

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I would still drop everything for you.

我还是会为你放弃一切。

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