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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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。

A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.

一个人不是你和他最后一次谈话时的那个人——他们是你整个关系中的那个人。

They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy.

他们密谋在夜里抛弃我们,偷走我们的几匹马……我们雇了一个间谍。

Silence is golden but too long a silence an imitation junk.

沉默是金,但太久的沉默是模仿的垃圾。

Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

自负比机智更能引起交谈。

A desert is a place without expectation.

沙漠是一个没有期待的地方。

Silence is the virtue of fools.

沉默是愚人的美德。