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Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.

  • -- Nicholson Baker 尼科尔森·贝克

直到你的朋友或亲戚把这句谚语应用到你自己的生活中，或者直到你看到他把这句谚语应用到他自己的生活中，它都没有力量左右你。

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I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

我相信没有谚语不讲真话;它们都是如此多的句子和格言，来自经验，宇宙之母的科学。

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There's real peril in trying to repeat yourself, and apply rules that applied to something else to a new project.

试图重复自己的做法，并将适用于其他事情的规则应用到新项目中，这是非常危险的。

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Playing baseball was my dream, and no amount of money could sway my opinion.

打棒球是我的梦想，再多的钱也不能改变我的想法。

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A pointed proverb is like a diamond: it emits light, and it also cuts.

一句尖锐的谚语就像一颗钻石:它能发光，也能伤人。

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I never met a Jesuit before I applied for the order.

在我申请该命令之前，我从未见过耶稣会士。

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