It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

  • -- Charles Dickens 查尔斯·狄更斯

这是一件令人愉快的事情,并为那些为人类物种的逐渐退化而斗争的人提供了一个完整的答案,即每一个出生在这个世界上的婴儿都比上一个更好。

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I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.

我必须在此强调一点,我欣赏明确性、秩序、意义、结构和合理性:它们对于我们所拥有的任何临时稳定都是必要的,并且它们可以成为渐进和成功变革的推动者。

I've never really talked about this, but I would go days without eating. Or maybe I'd have some fruit and then go to the gym for three hours. I knew I had a problem... It was a gradual process but I changed myself.

我从来没有真正谈论过这个,但我会几天不吃东西。或者我可以吃点水果,然后去健身房锻炼三个小时。我知道我有个问题…这是一个渐进的过程,但我改变了自己。

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

对于两个人的灵魂来说,有什么比在无言的、无法言说的回忆中感到他们是连在一起的——彼此加强——彼此在一起更伟大的事情呢?

I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. So I decided to study Greek and learn to manage a horse.

我认为,要想与男孩平起平坐,最重要的是要有学问和勇气。所以我决定学习希腊语,学习管理一匹马。

Breaking the world record has always been in the works. I just need the right conditions and I can make it.

打破世界纪录一直在进行中。我只是需要合适的条件,我能做到。

Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human.

我们的潜意识并不比我们的意识更像动物,它往往更像人类。

Forgive many things in others nothing in yourself.

宽恕别人的许多事情,却不宽恕自己的任何事情。

World history is tragic.

世界历史是悲惨的。