There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.

  • -- Laurence Sterne 劳伦斯·斯特恩

世界上还有比给女人把脉更糟糕的职业。

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The simplicity and uniformity of rural occupations, and their incessant practice, preclude any anxieties and agitations of hope and fear, to which employments of a more precarious and casual nature are subject.

农村职业的简单性和统一性,以及它们不断的实践,排除了对希望和恐惧的任何焦虑和煽动,而对较不稳定和漫不经心的职业则是如此。

The irony of our social group is that so often everyone feels this, but there's no company whatsoever in that feeling. Think of Pound's great emphasis, the way out is via the door.

具有讽刺意味的是,我们这个社会群体的每个人都经常有这种感觉,但这种感觉中却没有任何同伴。想想庞德的重点,出路是通过门。

If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow.

如果事实是后来产生知识和智慧的种子,那么情感和感官的印象就是种子生长的沃土。

I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.

我不知道什么更糟糕:不知道自己是什么,却感到快乐,或者成为你一直想成为的人,却感到孤独。

Worse than telling a lie is spending your whole life staying true to a lie.

比说谎更糟糕的是你一生都在说谎。

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

高跟鞋是由一个额头被吻过的女人发明的。

Well, if fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.

好吧,如果幸运女神是个女人,她是这个装备的好姑娘。

No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.

没有一个完全忙碌的人真正感到痛苦。