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Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible.

  • -- George P. Baker 乔治·P·贝克

闹剧把不可能的事当作可能，把不可能的事当作可能。

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I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling.

没有真理的外表，我是不会高兴的;至少有一种可能，我希望历史是自然的，虽然感情是高雅的;虽然他们的行为很出色，但这些角色很有可能会出现。

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In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending.

在今天最好的闹剧中，我们从一些荒谬的前提开始，比如人物或情境，但如果这些前提一旦被赋予，我们就足够逻辑地走向结局。

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Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.

从本质上讲，复杂的、统计上不可能发生的事情比简单的、统计上可能发生的事情更难解释。

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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

信仰可以简单地定义为对不可能发生的事情的不合逻辑的信仰。

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