The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

  • -- Robertson Davies 罗伯逊戴维斯

对真理的热爱是许多幽默的根源。

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The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.

书的好处在于被人阅读。书是由一些符号组成的,这些符号代表着其他符号,而这些符号又代表着事物。如果没有眼睛去阅读,一本书所包含的符号就不会产生任何概念;所以它是哑的。

Every one knows how the snow lies in the valleys of the Alps, forming a plain which slopes gradually downward towards the outlet Imagine such a valley ten miles across, with just such a sloping plain, not of snow but of earth.

每个人都知道阿尔卑斯山的山谷里是如何积雪的,形成了一个逐渐向出口倾斜的平原。想象一下,有一个十英里宽的山谷,平原上倾斜的不是雪,而是土。