For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn.

  • -- William Banting 威廉·班廷

为了论证和说明,我假定某些日常饮食习惯,无论在青年时期多么有益,在老年时期却有害无益,就像豆子对马一样,马的日常饮食就是干草和玉米。

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First and foremost, you have to remember that restaurants are businesses and they have to stay in business. And though everyone thinks they want grass fed beef, most people actually prefer the taste of corn fed - it is less dry, more marbled, and less gamey, not to mention much less expensive than grass fed.

首先,也最重要的是,你必须记住,餐馆是企业,它们必须继续经营下去。虽然每个人都认为他们想要草饲牛肉,但大多数人实际上更喜欢玉米饲牛肉的味道——它没有草饲牛肉那么干,大理石更多,也没有那么甘美,更不用说比草饲牛肉便宜得多。

Maybe it's a little ambitious of me to presume that no matter how big the film is, that I can always go down to the shop to buy a pint of milk.

也许我有点野心勃勃地认为,不管电影有多大,我总是可以去商店买一品脱牛奶。

The argument for getting our own house in order is not an argument for turning our back on the world. We cannot and should not do that.

让我们自己的房子恢复秩序的理由,并不是说我们要抛弃这个世界。我们不能也不应该这样做。

A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

英雄是一个普通的人,他发现了力量,坚持和忍受,尽管压倒性的障碍。

If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.

如果你的工作是用振奋人心的场面来装点普通生活,要么振奋人心,要么走人。

Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.

政治不是豆袋。这是很严肃,很艰难的事情。

I will listen to any argument put to me.

我愿意听取任何向我提出的论点。