A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match.

  • -- Charles Dickens 查尔斯·狄更斯

一个不能付款的人得到另一个不能付款的人来保证他能付款。就像一个有两条木腿的人得到另一个有两条木腿的人来保证他有两条天然的腿。这使他们两人都不能进行竞走比赛。

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Most of the hotel gym's are not adequate. I mean you might be able to train your arms, but you aren't going to be able to train legs, back, or even chest if they don't have dumbbells and benches.

大多数旅馆的健身房都不够。我的意思是,你可以训练你的手臂,但是如果没有哑铃和凳子,你就不能训练你的腿,后背,甚至是胸部。

Man may be considered as having a twofold origin - natural, which is common and the same to all - patronymic, which belongs to the various families of which the whole human race is composed.

人类可以被认为有双重起源-自然的,这是共同的,对所有人都是一样的-居高人下的,它属于组成整个人类的各种家庭。

As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.

任何一个国家的土地一旦全部变成私有财产,地主们就像所有的人一样,喜欢从不播种的地方收割,甚至对其自然产物也要收取租金。

Beautiful? It's all a question of luck. I was born with good legs. As for the rest... beautiful, no. Amusing, yes.

漂亮吗?这全是运气的问题。我生来双腿就很好。至于其他的……美丽的,没有。有趣的,是的。