It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

  • -- Benjamin Franklin 本杰明富兰克林

认为自己伟大而无良是大错特错的,我可以肯定地说,没有一个真正伟大的人同时不具有真正的美德。

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We believe that it is very important that we have hopefully averted what would have been the most substantial headwind of all, which is a default for the first time in our history, and that that will contribute to a more positive environment that we hope will allow for greater growth and job creation.

我们认为是非常重要的,我们希望避免最实质性的不利因素是什么,这是一个默认第一次在我们的历史上,这将导致一个更积极的环境,我们希望将允许更大的增长和创造就业。

People ask me what I do in my spare time, and I look at them blankly, truly believing that I don't even have spare time, and if I did, I'd probably use it for something mundane, like chipping away at the mound of laundry rising to dangerous proportions in the back room.

人们问我我做什么在我的业余时间,我茫然地看着他们,真的相信我没有空闲时间,如果我做了,我可能会用它来世俗的东西,像在堆衣服后面房间里上升到危险的程度。

I think for me I've always loved being in the water and I love training and I love being at the pool so you know it's not a chore for me to go training, but come race day I would never just train to train - I train to race.

我想对我来说,我一直喜欢在水里,我喜欢训练,我喜欢在游泳池里,所以你知道,对我来说,去训练不是一件苦差事,但是到了比赛的那一天,我不会只是训练再训练,我训练再比赛。

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

一个人要想成为伟大的好人,就必须有强烈而全面的想象;他必须把自己放在别人和许多其他人的位置上;人类的痛苦和快乐必须成为人类自己的。

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

教育不在于你有多少记忆,甚至不在于你知道多少。它能够区分你知道的和你不知道的。

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.

能够有稳定的友谊和持久的爱情,这不仅是心灵善良的两大证明,也是精神力量的两大证明。

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

世界上最大的放大镜是一个人看自己的眼睛。

I wish that society's opinion wouldn't be the worst nightmare of someone with low self-esteem.

我希望社会舆论不会成为自卑者的噩梦。

Kind words can be short & easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless.

善意的话语可以很短,也很容易说出来,但它们的回音却是无穷无尽的。

I was hit for the first time before I was married.

我结婚前第一次挨打。