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The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.

  • -- Harold Acton 阿克顿

总的来说，传记和自传比过去二十年的小说更令人印象深刻，但其中那些怪异的畅销书最不可能经受住时间的考验。

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The Dark Arts are many, varied, ever-changing and eternal. Fighting them is like fighting a many-headed monster, which, each time a neck is severed, sprouts a head even fiercer and cleverer than before. You are fighting that which is unfixed, mutating, indestructible.

黑魔法是多种多样、千变万化和永恒的。打它们就像打一个多头怪物，每割下一个脖子，就会长出一个比以前更凶猛、更聪明的脑袋。你们正在与那不固定的、变异的、坚不可摧的东西战斗。

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A tree you pass by every day is just a tree. If you are to closely examine what a tree has and the life a tree has, even the smallest thing can withstand a curiosity, and you can examine whole worlds.

你每天路过的那棵树只是一棵树。如果你仔细观察一棵树所拥有的和它所拥有的生命，即使是最小的东西也能经得起好奇心的考验，你可以观察整个世界。

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Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.

一旦你接触到人类的传记，政治信仰是由逻辑决定的观念就会像被扎破的气球一样崩溃。

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I always want to portray veterans in a positive light, and since I got into acting full time, I've made that part of my goal.

我总是想以积极的态度来塑造退伍军人，自从我成为一名全职演员，我就把这作为我的目标之一。

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But I would bet that the euro continues to exist and that its importance as a global currency will likely increase.

但我敢打赌，欧元将继续存在，它作为一种全球货币的重要性可能会上升。

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I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

我感兴趣的事实是，一个人越没有安全感，就越有可能产生极端的偏见。

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I read a lot of biographies and books with an African background.

我读了很多有非洲背景的传记和书籍。

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The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one.

买家需要一百只眼睛，卖家不需要一只。

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