Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed

  • -- Joseph Addison 约瑟夫·艾迪生

凡是新奇的或不寻常的东西,都能在想象中引起一种愉快,因为它能使心灵充满一种愉快的惊奇,满足它的好奇心,使它产生一种以前不曾有过的想法

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If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old - somebody who takes good care of things and of people.

如果哥本哈根是一个人,这个人应该慷慨,美丽,年老,但有才华。一个人有一定的争吵倾向,充满想象力,对新事物充满欲望,对旧事物充满敬意——一个能很好地照顾人和事的人。

I had spent some time in the outback, but to meet Aboriginals and work with them was wonderful. It gave me a great appreciation of how tough life is and about the indomitable spirit that the Aboriginal people have always possessed.

我曾在内地待过一段时间,但能见到土著居民并与他们一起工作真是太棒了。它让我深刻地体会到生活的艰辛,体会到土著人一直以来所具有的不屈不挠的精神。

I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.

在诗歌中,我似乎不断地回到父亲的身边,因为他的个性是如此极端,如此强烈。他做任何事都过分了。

Everything, everything, everything! I want to know everything. I want the privilege of being a crone.

一切,一切,一切!我想知道一切。我想要成为一个老太婆的特权。

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

如果你被一个想法所吸引,你会发现它无处不在,你甚至会闻到它。

Your imagination has an impressive reach. Or my boredom an impressive scope.

你的想象力很丰富。或者我的无聊程度令人印象深刻。

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

我相信每个人的心灵都能从对他人行善中获得快乐。

Novelty is the great parent of pleasure.

新奇是快乐之源。