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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So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born.

我们生活中太多的时间都花在考虑自己的缺点上,以至于没有时间去改善我们想象中的优点。事实上,我们只是在完善我们的罪恶,人死后比出生时更坏。

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。

A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.

回忆录从一个人的生活中选取了一些特定的线索,一些事件,一些经历,并加以叙述。

The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.

美德的名义和伪装对自身利益和真正的罪恶一样有用。

It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

毫不夸张地说,那些犹豫不决的人可能会这样或那样做。

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。

We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues.

我们更多的是被自己的缺点所束缚,而不是美德。