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Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.

  • -- Christopher Fry 克里斯托弗·弗莱

诗歌的优点是能够在一半的时间里说两倍于散文的话，缺点是，如果你没有把全部的注意力放在诗歌上，那么你似乎在两倍的时间里说了一半的话。

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One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

爱国主义最大的吸引力之一——它满足了我们最坏的愿望。以我们国家的名义，我们可以间接地欺凌和欺骗。欺侮和欺骗，更重要的是，我们觉得自己是非常善良的。

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When I was a little girl, I loved monkeys. I wanted to be a primatologist. I went to the careers office to ask how. Because nobody could give me a good answer, I opted for acting.

当我还是个小女孩的时候，我喜欢猴子。我想成为一名灵长类动物学家。我去了职业办公室，问他们是怎么做的。因为没有人能给我一个好的答案，我选择了演戏。

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Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.

诗歌是普通语言的n次方。诗歌是由思想所构成的，是由细腻、坚韧的文字所凝聚而成的。

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I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet.

我相信任何一个有共同理解的人，通过文化、关心、注意和劳动，都能使自己成为除伟大诗人之外他所喜欢的任何人。

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Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents.

每个人都追求自己的理论，很少关心通过关注对手的进步来纠正或改进它。

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I bought all my friends guitars and I had a good time with my money. But then one day the IRS came knocking.

我给我所有的朋友都买了吉他，我用我的钱玩得很开心。但是有一天国税局来敲门。

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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.

圣礼的精神美德就像光;它虽经过污秽之地，却未受污染。

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We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.

我们是如此习惯于掩饰与他人，以致于假以时日，我们来欺骗和掩饰与我们自己。

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God gives us people to love and things to use, not things to love and people to use...

上帝给我们爱的人和使用的东西，而不是爱的人和使用的人……

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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

诗歌比历史更接近重要的真理。

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