It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

  • -- Aristotle 亚里士多德

只是,我们不仅应该感激那些我们可能同意其观点的人,而且应该感激那些表达了更肤浅观点的人;因为在我们面前发展思想的力量,这些人也有所贡献。

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At the surface, many people's goals are to lose weight, tone up, feel better, etc. But superficial goals get superficial results that usually fade. Dig a little deeper, and the 'why' is usually unveiled: to be more confident, to be more happy, to feel sexy again.

从表面上看,许多人的目标是减肥、强身健体、感觉更好等等。但是肤浅的目标得到的往往是肤浅的结果。再深入一点,“为什么”通常就会浮出水面:变得更自信,更快乐,再次感到性感。

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.

从阿米巴变形虫到人类的过程在哲学家们看来是一个明显的进步,尽管阿米巴变形虫是否会同意这一观点还不清楚。

Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles.

我怀着这些见解,请各位先生们,像我刚才那样,冷静地回顾事实和原则,来看待这个问题。

I am all right when I work. I am not superficial and I am not ungrateful.

我工作时很好。我不肤浅,我不忘恩负义。