However, no two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is - in other words, not a thing, but a think.

  • -- Penelope Fitzgerald 佩内洛普·菲兹杰拉德

然而,没有两个人以完全相同的方式看待外部世界。对于每一个独立的人来说,一件事就是他所想的——换句话说,不是一件事,而是一种思想。

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If our most highly qualified General Staff officers had been told to work out the most nonsensical high level organization for war which they could think of, they could not have produced anything more stupid that that which we have at present.

如果我们最称职的总参谋部官员被告知要制定出他们所能想到的最荒谬的战争高级组织,他们就不会做出比我们目前所拥有的更愚蠢的东西了。

I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.

我认为一个人原则上一年至少应该喝醉两次,这样他就不会因此而沾沾自喜了。

To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless.

要想在这个世界上快乐,首先你需要一部手机,然后你需要一架飞机。这样你就真的无线了。

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.

世界上最真诚的朋友就像暴风雨之夜的航灯。