In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.

  • -- Frances Anne Kemble 弗朗西斯·安妮·肯布尔

在北方,我们不能指望让最坏、最穷的仆人在我们的黑人仆人被迫生活在悲惨的不适感中过一天。

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Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

希望是一种心态,而不是世界。从这种深刻而有力的意义上讲,希望并不等同于一切顺利带来的喜悦,也不等同于愿意投资那些显然正在走向成功的企业,而是一种因为好事而努力工作的能力。

I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.

我试着减少亵渎,但在写这本书的时候,我减少了太多的亵渎,以至于我担心写不出什么来。也许我们将不得不把它简单地看作是一本亵渎神明的书,并希望下一本书将少一些亵渎神明,或者更神圣一些。

A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.

一个原本旨在支持社会上最贫困人口的体系,现在却把他们困在了原本应该得到缓解的状况之中。

My wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it.

我的妻子总是能看到一个角色对我个人的影响,因为她不得不忍受它。

The only expectations you should live up to are the ones you expect of yourself.

你唯一应该达到的期望就是你对自己的期望。