Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.

  • -- G. M. Trevelyan G.M.Trevelyan先生

公正的求知欲是真正文明的生命力。

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Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books.

学问是一回事,苦差是另一回事。我很快得出结论,没有什么能吸引我去阅读,更不用说做笔记了,成百上千本非常、非常、非常无聊的书。

By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.

我所说的粗俗,是指文明的罪恶,它使人为自己和近亲感到羞耻,并假扮成另一个人。

Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.

给我看一个人物,他的生活激起了我的好奇心,我的肉体开始因悬疑而蠕动。

By reading so much, my vocabulary automatically improved along with my comprehension.

通过大量阅读,我的词汇量随着我的理解能力自动提高。

I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.

我不知道任何社会都有权强迫另一个社会文明。