To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.

  • -- Thomas Babington Macaulay 麦考莱

对于这一类人,我们可以把它留给改进本国的方言,用借用西方命名法的科学术语来丰富这些方言,并使它们逐渐成为向广大人民传播知识的工具。

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In real life, the most important decision you ever make is, where does reality leave off and make-believe begin? If you make a mistake about that, you're dead. You know, you're out on the street corner. You think there's no bus coming. You step out, you're dead.

在现实生活中,你做过的最重要的决定是,现实从哪里开始,假装从哪里开始?如果你弄错了,你就死定了。你知道,你就在街角。你以为没有公共汽车来。你出去,你就死定了。

It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.

令人惊讶的是,整个人口对未来没有任何计划,根本没有。这当然是不寻常的,但却是千真万确的。

I dated a lot of girls all through high school, and in college I dated a young lady for about eight months.

高中时我和很多女孩约会,大学时我和一位年轻女士约会了八个月。

I spent my last year of high school in Latin America, and there's a edge of salsa under all of my rhythms.

我在拉丁美洲度过了高中的最后一年,在我所有的节奏中都有一种萨尔萨舞曲的味道。

My beloved Mom and Pop always rated tops with each other, and that's the way it will always be.

我深爱的妈妈和爸爸总是互相评头品等,而且永远都是这样。

To work on great material, what you really end up working on is yourself, your own humanity.

要创作伟大的作品,你最终要做的是你自己,你自己的人性。

Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population.

不要忘记生日。这绝不是针对更多人的宣传。

You promised that you'd never leave where are you now?

你答应过我永远不会离开你现在在哪里?