The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.

  • -- Ralph Adams Cram 拉尔夫·克拉姆

对完美的追求总是意味着明确的贵族,这是一个努力的目标,就像一个崇高的哲学,一个庄严的公民政治或伟大的艺术。

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Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.

传记是一个非常明确的地域,它以历史为北,以小说为南,以讣告为东,以沉闷为西。

London is a good fashion city. They're a little more daring. There's the element of the aristocracy, which is always interesting.

伦敦是一个很好的时尚城市。他们更大胆一点。还有贵族的元素,总是很有趣。

A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.

大规模的移民必然意味着这个被遗弃的国家的某种或那种不幸。

Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.

战争只是另一种贵族掠夺和压迫商业的方式。

This is definitely the first curmudgeon, no doubt about it.

毫无疑问,这绝对是第一个脾气暴躁的人。