Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.

  • -- Francois Marie Arouet 阿鲁埃

工作使我们远离三种罪恶:无聊、堕落和匮乏。

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The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.

在过去的四五百年里,欧洲人与非洲的接触产生了大量的文学作品,这些作品把非洲描述得非常糟糕,用非常耸人听闻的语言描述非洲人。其原因与为奴隶贸易和奴隶制辩护的需要有关。

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

世上有三样东西是极其坚硬的:钢、钻石和认识自己。

I got three whippings a day from my mama.

我妈妈每天抽我三鞭子。