The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.

  • -- Michael Caine 迈克尔·凯恩

缺席者总是有缺点的。也不是没有借口的现在。

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If you ask my wife, the biggest fault is my inability around the house. She says the only thing handy about me is that I'm close by. And, I have a terrible memory. I'm bad at saying no. I often double-book. There are a lot of things.

如果你问我妻子,她会说我最大的缺点就是不善于打理家务。她说我唯一方便的地方就是我就在附近。我的记忆力很差。我不擅长说不。我经常双份的。账目有很多事情。

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

从现在的努力中解脱出来,仅仅意味着过去的努力已经积累起来了。

To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.

要了解现在的情况,就把它们与古代的情况进行比较。

We didn't score any runs today. That's not my fault.

我们今天没有得分。那不是我的错。