Nothing is ever as one imagines it.

  • -- Ian McEwan 伊恩·麦克尤恩

没有什么是你想象的那样。

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Rich kids gave us their old clothes. They were the best clothes we ever had. We were these very pure, naive, poor children. The rich kids called us a lot of names but it never bothered us because we didn't know what the words meant.

有钱的孩子把他们的旧衣服给了我们。它们是我们有过的最好的衣服。我们都是非常纯洁、天真、贫穷的孩子。有钱人家的孩子给我们起了很多名字,但我们从不介意,因为我们不知道这些词的意思。

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

只要一个人认为他不能做这个或那个,只要他下定决心不做它;因此,只要他不可能去做,他就会去做。

Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.

礼貌是人类历史上最大的影响因素之一。

One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.

一个人永远不会像他想象的那样幸运或不幸。