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People change, and promises are broken.

  • -- Jonathan Swift 乔纳森·斯威夫特

人会变，承诺也会被打破。

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The foreign accent was a promise, and indeed, all over the country, European imports added spice to the sciences, the arts, and other areas. What one had to give was not considered inferior to what one received.

外国口音是一种承诺，事实上，在全国各地，欧洲的进口为科学、艺术和其他领域增添了情趣。一个人付出的并不比他得到的少。

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How is it that, once victory took form and the horrible spectacle of the extermination camps was revealed, we could have shamelessly broken the promises given to the peoples in those years of ordeal?

一旦胜利形成，灭绝营的可怕景象被揭露出来，我们怎能厚颜无耻地违背在那些苦难岁月中对人民所作的承诺呢?

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Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry.

爱是免费的;承诺永远爱同一个女人并不比承诺相信同一个信条更荒谬;在这两种情况下，这样的誓言把我们排除在一切调查之外。

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If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.

如果你老了，不要试图改变自己，改变你的环境。

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People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.

人们常常抱怨别人不能享受自己。

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We may be a small island, but we are not a small people.

我们可能是一个小岛，但我们不是一个小国民。

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You had better be ready to change your mind when needed.

你最好准备好在需要的时候改变主意。

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When a gust of wind hits a broken bone, you feel it.

当一阵风吹断了骨头，你能感觉到它。

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