The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.

  • -- Gore Vidal 戈尔·维达尔

我们的统治阶级的天才之处在于,它阻止了大多数人对一个大多数人辛辛苦苦地工作,却得不到任何回报地缴纳重税的制度的不公平提出质疑。

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I'd love to learn to cook. I think the ladies like a guy who can cook. Also, there are lots of available ladies at cooking classes. Can you tell I'm single?

我想学做饭。我想女士们喜欢会做饭的男人。而且,在烹饪课上也有很多女士。你知道我是单身吗?

For once you have tasted flight, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards for there you have been and there you will long to return.

因为你们尝过飞行的滋味,就必在地上行走,举目向天,因为你们曾在那里,也必盼望归回。

In movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class.

在运动课上,你必须躺在地板上,让你的队列通过这门课。

Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance.

欢乐一去不复返,回忆起来是多么痛苦。