All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

  • -- Samuel Johnson 塞缪尔·约翰逊

所有的旅行都有它的优点。如果旅客访问更好的国家,他可能会学习改进自己的国家。如果命运把他带到更糟的境地,他也许会学会享受它。

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I don't especially like to travel, not the way many people do. I know many people that love to go to far-off and different places, and I've never been like that. I seem to get homesick as quickly as a child.

我不像许多人那样特别喜欢旅行。我知道很多人喜欢去遥远的不同的地方,我从来没有像那样。我似乎像个孩子一样,很快就想家了。

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

也许旅行不能阻止偏见,但通过展示所有人的哭泣、欢笑、吃饭、担忧和死亡,它可以引入这样一种观念:如果我们试着去理解彼此,我们甚至可能成为朋友。

You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed! I am simply smothered and sickened with advantages. It is like eating a sweet dessert the first thing in the morning.

当所有的困难都消除后,你不知道生活意味着什么!我只是被优点压得喘不过气来。这就像早上第一件事就是吃甜点一样。

Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.

当时逃亡奴隶很少见,作为一个逃亡奴隶讲师,我有一个优势,我是第一个出来的。