For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!

  • -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan 理查德·布林斯利·谢里丹

因为,如果一个人有什么值得称赞的地方,满足于此是愚蠢的虚荣心;如果这是滥用——为什么一个人总能从一个该死的好心肠的朋友那里听到这些呢?

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I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth and who knows why someone is some way.

我对背景故事感到害怕。因为它从来没有很好地解释或进入一些心理的东西从来没有很正确,从来没有很真实,谁知道为什么有人是某种方式。

I'm very strict with my packing and have everything in its right place. I never change a rule. I hardly use anything in the hotel room. I wheel my own wardrobe in and that's it.

我对包装很严格,每样东西都放对了地方。我从不改变规则。我在旅馆房间里几乎不用任何东西。我把自己的衣柜推进去,就这样。

I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that.

我没有女朋友。但我知道有个女人会因为我这么说而生我的气。

My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily.

我的天啊,这些人不知道如何去爱——这就是为什么他们如此轻易地去爱。

We didn't do anything wrong... Some are frustrated that we did it this way.

我们没做错什么…有些人对我们这样做感到沮丧。

Don’t shout my friend; no one gives you the shit unless you make them.

不要喊我的朋友;没人给你大便,除非你自己做。