Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet may be used to cut your own throat or that of an innocent person.

  • -- Charles Edward Montague 查尔斯·爱德华·蒙塔古

爱国主义在不同的时期,就像剃刀一样,有着截然不同的用途。剃刀本应用来清洁你的脸,但也可能用来割自己或无辜的人的喉咙。

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If you asked somebody, 'what do you wish for in life?' they wouldn't say 'happiness.' I would have answered 'excitement, knowledge,' God knows - I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not 'happiness'. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular.

如果你问某人,“你希望生活中有什么?”他们不会说“幸福”。我会回答“兴奋、知识”,上帝知道——我的意思是,很多很多不同的东西,但肯定不是“幸福”。这似乎是一个外国的概念,希望什么具体的和独特的。

You just worry that your time is up. It's not that people suddenly go, 'Oh, actually they're not very good any more,' but sometimes, well, your time is up. There are a lot of actors out there who just disappear.

你只是担心你的时间到了。这并不是说人们会突然说,‘哦,实际上他们已经不怎么好了’,但有时候,你的时间到了。有很多演员就这样消失了。

If one looks at the different problems of the integral calculus which arise naturally when one wishes to go deep into the different parts of physics, it is impossible not to be struck by the analogies existing.

当一个人想要深入研究物理学的不同部分时,自然会产生不同的积分问题。

Some people may have noticed the new computer shelf at the anchor desk. Rather than phone calls, we want to take real time e-mails, and we'll be starting that very soon.

有些人可能已经注意到了锚台的新电脑架子。我们想要的不是电话,而是实时的电子邮件,我们很快就会开始这样做。

A person who's willing to meet you halfway is usually, conveniently, a poor judge of distance.

一个愿意和你走到半路的人通常对距离的判断很差,这很方便。

I study to learn, to be an educated person.

我学习是为了学习,为了成为一个受过教育的人。