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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

  • -- William Butler Yeats 叶芝

我们从与别人的争吵中提炼出来的，是修辞，而从与自己的争吵中提炼出来的，是诗歌。

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It is up to the public to stop attending these theatrical, and aquatic shows, and circuses with wild animals. The rhetoric about how the animals are happy and well cared for are lies. Don't be swayed by them. The money behind these shows is huge; there is nothing good about them.

公众应该停止参加这些戏剧、水上表演和野生动物马戏团。关于动物如何快乐和受到良好照顾的花言巧语是谎言。不要被他们左右。这些节目背后的资金是巨大的;他们一点也不好。

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For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

一个作家边写边写，就像他犯了相反的错误一样，应该受到谴责;因为这给他所说的话带来了一种迂腐的效果，同时也使他的话难以理解。

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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

我冒昧地猜测，阿农写了那么多诗却没有署名，他通常是个女人。

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There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry.

匈牙利有一部优秀的文学作品，尤其是抒情诗。

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He who wishes to live at Rome must not quarrel with the pope.

想住在罗马的人不能和教皇争吵。

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In a false quarrel there is no true valor.

在虚假的争吵中没有真正的勇气。

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