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It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.

  • -- Washington Irving 华盛顿欧文

使一个破产的人烦恼的与其说是贫穷，还不如说是矫饰——在骄傲的头脑和空虚的钱包之间挣扎——必须很快结束的空虚的表演。

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My biggest thing has always been privacy. With an interview such as this where the questions are about me, I struggle to express myself. I have an immediate answer in my head of what I'd say, but sometimes I feel that it would be too honest. So these wheels of censorship start going around my head.

我最大的事情就是隐私。在这样的面试中，问题都是关于我自己的，我很难表达自己。我对自己想说的话有一个直接的答案，但有时我觉得这太诚实了。所以这些审查的车轮开始绕着我的脑袋转。

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In the present epoch of struggle between two worlds the two opposing and antagonistic trends penetrating the foundations of nearly all branches of biology are particularly sharply defined.

在当今两个世界之间斗争的时代，渗透到几乎所有生物学分支基础上的两种对立和对立的趋势得到了特别明确的界定。

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I've always loved painting, although I never show anyone what I've done. Mainly because I don't do it well. But it's like a form of visual diary for me. A way of fixing things in my mind.

我一直很喜欢画画，虽然我从来没有给任何人看过我的作品。主要是因为我做得不好。但对我来说，这就像是一种视觉日记。一种在我脑海中固定事物的方法。

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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

贫穷对富人来说是一种反常现象;很难理解为什么想吃晚饭的人不按铃。

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Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.

我表现出来的大部分自信，尤其是受到午间酒的影响时，只是一种伪装。

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Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty.

习惯和新奇这两个截然相反的特质同样会使我们的思维产生偏见。

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August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.

八月，夏季最后一个不幸的信使，是一个空洞的演员。

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Poverty affects people of all races.

贫困影响着所有种族的人。

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