Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

  • -- W. H. Auden 奥登

几乎我们所有的关系都是从相互剥削开始的,其中大多数都是作为一种精神或物质交换的形式继续存在的,当一方或双方的货物用完时,这种关系就会终止。

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To illustrate to the Indians the advantages the white race had in the telephone I divided a body of warriors from Sitting Bull's camp into two parties and had them talk to each other over the telephone line.

为了向印第安人说明白人在电话中的优势,我把坐着的公牛队的一群战士分成两派,让他们通过电话互相交谈。

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

但是,那种彼此感到尴尬的亲密关系,即双方都感到对方有某种感觉,而这种感觉一旦存在,其影响是无法消除的。

Freedom goes hand-in-hand with mutual respect.

自由与相互尊重相辅相成。

Those who do a thing are consenting parties.

做一件事的人是双方当事人。