A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.

  • -- William Graham Sumner 美国的索姆奈

一个酒鬼在阴沟里正是他应该呆的地方,这是根据事情的发展趋势而定的。大自然给他安排了一个衰微和解体的过程,通过这个过程,她除去了那些无用的东西。

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But the customer is the final, final filter. What survives the whole process is what people wear. I'm not interested in making clothes that end up in some dusty museum.

但客户是最终的过滤器。在整个过程中幸存下来的是人们的穿着。我对在某个尘土飞扬的博物馆里做衣服不感兴趣。

Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs.

很少有友谊能经受得住爱情的喜怒无常。