Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

  • -- Alexander Pope 亚历山大·波普

看,这孩子,按照天性的善良法则,喜欢拨浪鼓,用稻草挠痒痒。

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A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.

一个孩子也永远无法理解这样一个事实:同样是这位母亲,她做饭做得那么好,那么关心他的咳嗽,那么慈祥地帮助他做作业,在某些情况下,她对他的感情不过是隐藏在他内心世界的一堵墙。

I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

我告诉人类,不要对上帝感到好奇。我是凡事察验的、却不察验神。我凡事听见看见神、却不明白神的意思。

Alas, the world has never known a sound social fabric, a fabric sound and clean to the core and kindly. For it has ever turned its back on Man.

唉,这个世界从来没有一个健全的社会结构,一个健全而干净的结构的核心和善良。因为它从来没有背弃过人类。

It is not easy to sting a bear with a straw.

用稻草刺熊不容易。

A drowning man will catch at a straw.

溺水的人连一根稻草也要抓。