The trifle now inscribed with your name. was occasioned by a particular fact; but to the disgrace of human nature, the subject is sufficiently general to interest every heart not totally impenetrable.

  • -- Thomas Day 托马斯日

那件刻着你名字的小玩意。是由一个特殊的事实引起的;但是,让人性蒙羞的是,这个话题的普遍性足以引起每一颗心的兴趣,而不是完全无法理解。

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It should seem, then, that the nature of society dictates another, a higher branch, whose superiority arises from its being the interested and natural conservator of the universal interest.

因此,社会的性质似乎决定了另一个更高的分支,它的优越性来自于它是对普遍利益感兴趣的自然保护者。

Blows the wind to-day, and the sun and the rain are flying, Blows the wind on the moors to-day and now, Where about the graves of the martyrs the whaups are crying, My heart remembers how!

今天起风了,太阳和雨都在飞,今天起风了,旷野上也起了风,而现在,在烈士们的坟头上,呼号的人在哭,我的心还记得!

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

人的本性中肯定有一种内在的倾向,那就是从所有的恶中榨取所有的善。

I actually think that secrets are just a part of human nature and that everybody should have some.

事实上,我认为秘密只是人性的一部分,每个人都应该有一些。

He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart, he put other different desires.

他把某些愿望和计划放在你心里;在我心里,他把其他不同的欲望。

Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted.

兴趣使一些人盲目,另一些人目光敏锐。