An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.

  • -- Walter Bagehot 沃尔特·巴格霍特

有一种夸大其词的成分附属于大众的判断:大恶习愈演愈烈,大美德也愈演愈烈;有趣的事件变得更有趣,更柔和的传说变得更柔和。

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Out of the depths, O Lord, out of the depths,' begins the most beautiful of the services of our church, and it is out of the depths of my life that I must bring the incidents of this story.

“主啊,从深处开始,从深处开始,”我们教会最美丽的事奉开始了,我必须从我生命的深处来讲述这个故事。

Everything that I had done creatively related to two or three incidents that happened to me when I was a child that I'd forgotten. Everything, absolutely everything.

我所做的每一件创造性的事情,都与我小时候发生的两三件忘记的事情有关。一切,一切。

We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.

我们并不轻视所有有恶习的人,但我们确实鄙视那些没有美德的人。

It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.

使一个人陷入灾难的总是他的优点,而不是他的缺点。

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

没有恶习是好的,但没有诱惑就不好了。

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

夸张是谎言的近亲,几乎同样应该受到谴责。

Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs.

夸张就是画一条蛇,加上两条腿。