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The possibility of saying anything about a thing rests on the assumption that it preserves its identity, or continues to be the same thing in the respect described, that it will behave in future situations as it has in past.

  • -- Frank Knight 奈特

关于一件事说任何话的可能性是建立在这样一个假设之上，即它保持其同一性，或在所描述的方面继续是同一件事，即它在未来的情况中将象过去一样行事。

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In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike.

在某种意义上，我们甚至可以说，我们的失败在于形成习惯:因为，习惯毕竟是相对于一个刻板的世界而言的，而使两个人、两件事、两种情况看起来相似的，只是眼睛的粗糙。

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Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy.

诗歌喜剧对我来说很有趣，因为押韵对联的写作是一种挑战，这种形式通常不适合英语，但对我来说，它为喜剧提供了很大的可能性。

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When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow loyal to situations and to types.

年轻时我们对个人忠诚，长大后我们对环境和类型更加忠诚。

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I was an activist long before I even entertained the possibility of being an actor.

早在我考虑成为一名演员之前，我就是一名活动家。

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