And I might add the confidence with which distracted persons do oftentimes, when they are awake, think, they see black fiends in places, where there is no black object in sight without them.

  • -- Robert Boyle 罗伯特·博伊尔

我还想说的是,那些心烦意乱的人常常会满怀信心地认为,当他们醒着的时候,他们在一些地方看到了黑人恶魔,而在这些地方,没有他们,就看不到任何黑人的东西。

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We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.

我们所有的梦想;我们不理解自己的梦,但我们的行为就好像我们的睡眠中没有发生什么奇怪的事情,至少与我们清醒时头脑中合乎逻辑的、有目的的行为相比是奇怪的。

The more you let yourself be distracted from where you are going, the more you are the person that you are. It's not so much like getting lost as it is like getting found.

你越让自己从你要去的地方分心,你就越成为你自己。与其说是迷路,不如说是找到了。

Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.

哎呀,外场太寂寞了。无事可做很难保持清醒。