The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation.

  • -- Walter Elliot 沃尔特·艾略特

沙漠有它的沉默的神圣,人群有它的谈话的神圣。

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I have followed holiness, I have taught truth, and I have been most in the main things; not that I thought the things concerning our times little, but that I thought none could do anything to purpose in God's great and public matters, till they were right in their conditions.

我以圣洁为本,以真理为教训,在许多事上有忠心。我并不是不重视我们这个时代的事情,而是我认为,在上帝的大事和公共事务上,没有人能做任何事情来达到目的,除非他们的条件合适。

God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.

例如,上帝就像一个没有胡须,戴着一顶丝棉帽的人向我祈求;神圣是一种燃烧的、令人生畏的东西,一种与火有关的东西,而一天的形状是一个长方形的盒子。

It's like breathing in and out to me. It's like having a conversation with someone who isn't there. Because it has to be addressed to somebody - not a particular person, or very rarely.

对我来说就像呼吸一样。这就像和一个不在场的人交谈一样。因为它必须是写给某个人的——不是某个特定的人,或者很少。

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

阅读所有的好书就像与过去几个世纪最杰出的人交谈。

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

没有人比沉默寡言的人更能掌握语言。

They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.

他们保卫沙漠中的沙粒,直到流尽最后一滴血。

The desert surrounds your every step and you walk forever a thirsty man.

旷野环绕你的每一步,你永远是一个口渴的人。

Some say silence is golden, I choose noise!

有人说沉默是金,我选择噪音!