The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

  • -- Thomas Merton 托马斯·默顿

爱的开始是让我们所爱的人成为完美的自己,而不是扭曲他们以符合我们自己的形象。否则,我们只爱自己在他们身上的反映。

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It is incumbent upon each of us to improve spending and savings practices to ensure our own individual financial security and preserve the collective economic well-being of our great society.

我们每个人都有责任改进支出和储蓄做法,以确保我们个人的财政安全,维护我们伟大社会的集体经济福祉。

I go to the movies a lot, and I regret when I see some actor that I used to like, to find them offering no more surprises.

我经常去看电影,当我看到一些我以前喜欢的演员时,我很后悔,发现他们不再给我惊喜。

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

这还不是结束。这甚至不是结束的开始。但这或许是开端的终结。

Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.

今天不是结束的开始,就是开始的结束。今天,我们正在创造历史。

Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.

人不应该向任何东西发誓;因为反思会使他们的决心成为谎言。

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

幸福生长在我们自己的火炉边,而不能从别人的花园中采得。

Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through.

音乐是我的生命,它反映了我所经历的一切。

I want to do well and I want to fit in.

我想做好,我想融入。

You want to try to find your heritage.

你想要找到你的传统。

I like to keep fit.

我喜欢保持健康。