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The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.

  • -- Thomas Robert Malthus 马尔萨斯

如果不产生痛苦或罪恶，就不能制止人口的优越力量。

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Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.

人类是唯一只会消费而不生产的生物。它不产奶，不下蛋，它太弱了，拉不动犁，它跑得不够快，抓不到兔子。然而他是所有动物的主人。

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The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

强者是弱者的天意。他是瞎子的眼睛，是软弱人的力量，是无防备人的盾牌。他弯下身子，俯视着倒下的人，笔直地站着。他通过举起别人而站起来。

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I noticed recently, in the last few shows I did, that I'm starting to get people - not a large group, but quite a few people - who come to see me because they love Curb Your Enthusiasm.

最近，我注意到，在我最近做的几场演出中，我开始吸引一些人来看我——不是一大群人，而是相当多的人——因为他们喜欢抑制你的热情。

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When the headache persisted, I checked myself into an emergency room. When the doctor used the term 'brain tumour', I feared the worst. My whole world shrank around me.

头痛持续时，我住进了急诊室。当医生用“脑瘤”这个词时，我担心的是最坏的情况。我的整个世界都缩小了。

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As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

当一个孩子在其早期的愚行中被纵容或制止时，一般就为将来的人的幸福或痛苦奠定了基础。

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Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

没有什么比一个朋友相信他比另一个朋友优越更能加强友谊了。

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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

富裕的人不容易形成正确的痛苦观念。

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