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In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain.

  • -- Phaedrus 菲得洛斯

在外表上是那么辉煌，那么虚荣;这只不过是一块没有大脑的镀金的石头。

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Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.

乍一看，似乎没有什么比人类行为的外在形式更不重要的了，然而，没有什么比这更值得人们重视的了:除了生活在一个没有自己礼仪的社会里，人们对一切都习以为常了。

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I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That's like a free compliment and you don't even gotta be smart to notice it.

我希望我的名字是布莱恩，因为有时人们会拼错我的名字，叫我布莱恩。这就像免费的赞美，你甚至不需要聪明地去注意它。

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Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature.

凡为你裁剪的衣服，就是不及为不像你这样身材的人裁剪的衣服好看，也是合宜的。

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An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.

诚实的人讲真话，虽然这可能会冒犯别人;一个虚荣的人，为了它可以。

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It is vain to fish without a hook, or learn to read without a book.

钓鱼不带钩，读书不读书，都是徒劳的。

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'Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do.

使人高尚的不是人所做的事，而是人所愿意做的事。

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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.

我选择一块大理石，把我不需要的东西砍掉。

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I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me.

我是一只没有脑子的熊，长篇大论使我心烦意乱。

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Writer's block is only a failure of the ego.

作家的障碍只是自我的失败。

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