Everywhere I look, there are ads marking Mother's Day. Mostly they conform to stereotype: flowers, jewelry, perfume. Not a lot of books. Not many computers. Few tools. Little that's useful.

  • -- Margaret Heffernan 玛格丽特·赫弗南

我看到的每一个地方都有母亲节的广告。大多数情况下,它们都符合刻板印象:鲜花、珠宝、香水。没有很多书。不是很多电脑。一些工具。小这是有用的。

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Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity of Man which the Hand of Nature had implanted in us, for great and useful purposes.

我们被教导要以比我们更卑贱和可鄙的程度来看待我们自己种族的一部分,为了伟大和有用的目的,我们失去了大自然之手植入我们心中的人的尊严的观念。

I don't subscribe to any particular orthodoxy, so I don't define it and I don't put it into a definition that other people have to conform to. An expression I always use is, there is a God and it's not me.

我不赞同任何特定的正统观念,所以我不给它下定义,也不给它下其他人必须遵守的定义。我常说的一句话是,有一个上帝,但不是我。

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

自传之所以有用,是因为你读到的和分析过的生活可能会给你一些启示,让你在自己的人生旅途中发现一些有用的东西。

I just don't conform very well.

我只是不太适应。