Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

  • -- Thomas Carlyle 托马斯·卡莱尔

良好的教养与良好的教养的区别,如果有区别的话,也只是因为它优雅地记住了别人的权利,而不是优雅地坚持自己的权利。

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I used to wear heels because I wanted to show people I wasn't ashamed of being tall. But I don't wear them any more because you don't have to wear heels to be beautiful. I can't even remember the last time I wore heels.

我过去常穿高跟鞋,因为我想让人们知道,我并不为个子高而感到羞耻。但我不再穿高跟鞋了,因为你不需要穿高跟鞋才能变得漂亮。我甚至不记得上次穿高跟鞋是什么时候了。

There's a lot of people out there who have seen us once somewhere in a pub or heard our songs late night on radio. We'd done four years of it before we'd even released a single. It's put us in good stead.

很多人曾经在酒吧里见过我们,或者在深夜的广播里听过我们的歌。在我们发行单曲之前,我们已经做了四年。这对我们有好处。

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

死亡是这样一个人,你能清楚地看到他,他的眼睛就在你的心脏的中心:他的眼睛不是通过对光线的反应而看到的,而是通过对来自你生命骨髓中的一种寒意的反应而看到的。

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

今天的很多教育都非常低效。我们常常在应该教年轻人自己种花的时候,却给他们插花。

The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.

记住,猫仍然是人类的朋友,因为它喜欢这样做,而不是因为它必须这样做。

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

优越的人知道什么是正确的;下等人知道什么东西好卖。

I don't plan to grow old gracefully. I plan to have face-lifts until my ears meet.

我不打算优雅地变老。我打算做面部拉皮手术,直到我的耳朵合拢为止。

The spaces between my fingers are right where yours fit perfectly.

我手指间的空隙正好与你的手指相吻合。

I try to be a good, diligent actor.

我努力成为一名优秀、勤奋的演员。

I've elected to age gracefully.

我选择优雅地老去。