Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors that they are ready to repeat their lessons as often as we please.

  • -- Robert Chambers 钱伯斯

书是站着的顾问和传道人,总是在手边,总是无私的;与口语老师相比,他们有一个优势,那就是他们随时准备重复他们的课程。

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Everybody's just been spilling their guts all over records and talking about how hard it is to be an entertainer and how much we get hated on and what we have to go through. But I ain't really got it that bad. I'm just happy to be here.

每个人都在唱片上倾吐心声,谈论成为一名艺人有多难,我们有多遭人憎恨,我们必须经历些什么。但我并没有那么糟。我很高兴来到这里。

In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help.

在一所玻璃厂质量好的学校里,根本没有闭卷考试这种事。学生们被要求拿出笔记,打开书。没有什么是禁止向老师或其他学生求助的。

I went out with some old friends and we were having fun. A couple of them were very intoxicated. When I went to leave, I refused to let them drive. So when I got pulled over, I was the driver.

我和一些老朋友出去玩,我们玩得很开心。有几个人喝得酩酊大醉。当我要离开时,我拒绝让他们开车。所以当我靠边停车时,我是司机。

Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.

名声是行动的回声,向世界发出响亮的声音,只是回声只重复最后一种艺术,但名声与一切有关,而且往往比一切都重要。

The point is, it didn't really matter what the book was about. It was what it meant that was important.

重点是,这本书讲的是什么并不重要。重要的是它的意义。

Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable.

经济、政治和个性往往是密不可分的。