The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'

  • -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning 伊丽莎白·巴雷特·布朗宁

希腊人在他们的悲剧中庄严地说:“没有人在死前被称为幸福的;”对此,我还要补充一句:“没有人在死前被称为不幸福的。”

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Every time I listen back to solos of mine I'll hear something I like and then another phrase that I can't stand. You have to live with what you play. And the recording medium puts that on us. When I play live gigs I don't think so much like that.

每次我听我的独奏,我会听到一些我喜欢的东西,然后另一个短语,我不能忍受。你必须接受你所扮演的角色。而录音媒体就会把这些信息传给我们。当我在现场演奏时,我并不这么想。

But Paul, in his preaching of the Gospel, is a debtor to deliver the word not to Barbarians only, but also to Greeks, and not only to the unwise, who would easily agree with him, but also to the wise.

但保罗在传福音的时候,不但欠外邦人的债,也欠希利尼人的债。不但欠那轻易敌挡他的愚拙人的债,也欠那智慧人的债。

Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process of separating off the emotions, it's one place you can process them.

任何喜剧演员都是一个悲剧的灵魂。喜剧是使人得以生存的东西之一。尤其是当一个人处于情感分离的过程中,这是一个你可以处理它们的地方。

I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made.

我认为幸福是一种副产品。我不认为你能追求幸福。我认为这句话是开国元勋们犯的为数不多的错误之一。

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

当美德没有胜利,而人们仍然感到人比毁灭他的力量更高贵时,悲剧就会发生。

Why do Greeks always open restaurants that fail?

为什么希腊人总是开失败的餐馆?