The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.

  • -- Gore Vidal 戈尔·维达尔

我们共同语言中最美丽的四个字:我告诉过你。

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When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don't advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards, we set a terrible message of duplicity and hypocrisy.

当我们远离全球变暖,京都议定书,当我们不负责任地在向非洲艾滋病迈进的道路上行动迟缓,当我们不推进和实践我们自己的言论和标准时,我们发出了一个可怕的信息,那就是表里不一和伪善。

The psychology of a language which, in one way or another, is imposed upon one because of factors beyond one's control, is very different from the psychology of a language which one accepts of one's free will.

一种语言的心理,以这样或那样的方式,由于无法控制的因素而强加于人,与一种语言的心理是非常不同的,这种语言的心理是一个人接受自己的自由意志。

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.

宁可默默无声,也不要说比沉默更有价值的话。宁可拿一颗珍珠去冒险,也不要说一句闲言碎语;多言少语,总要在寥寥几句话里说得很多。

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

在所有的才能中,最宝贵的是当一个人可以做到的时候,从不使用两个字。