We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

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

我们是一个弱小而善变的民族。贪婪、犹豫和以下是我们的疾病。

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The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.

有一天,这位艺术家从荆棘上的一个洞里掉了下去,从那一刻起,他就沿着一条地下河的黑色急流前进。

Yeah, people following me down the street and at the airport and all that. I can't imagine what it must be like for people who are, you know, actually famous.

是的,在街上,在机场,人们都跟着我。我无法想象,对于那些真正有名的人来说会是什么样子。

The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases.

对他来说,人类偏离自然最初所处的状态似乎已证明是一种疾病的大量来源。