Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.

  • -- T. S. Eliot T.S.艾略特

在这个世界上,有一半的伤害是由于那些想要感到自己很重要的人造成的。他们不是有意要伤害别人。但他们对这种伤害并不感兴趣。

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When I auditioned for my high school band the band director was excited because my father was known to be a great musician. When he heard me, he said 'Are you sure you're Ellis's son?'

当我参加高中乐队的试镜时,乐队指挥很兴奋,因为我的父亲是一个著名的伟大的音乐家。当他听到我说话时,他说:“你确定你是埃利斯的儿子吗?”

I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?

我认为环境应该归入我们国家安全的范畴。保卫我们的资源和保卫国外一样重要。否则还有什么好辩护的呢?

An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out.

一项重要的科学创新很少能通过逐渐赢得竞争对手的支持并使其转化为现实:真正发生的是竞争对手逐渐消亡。

I don't start with a design objective, I start with a communication objective. I feel my project is successful if it communicates what it is supposed to communicate.

我不是从设计目标开始,而是从交流目标开始。我觉得如果我的项目传达了它应该传达的东西,那么它就是成功的。

Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons.

毁灭是所有人奔向的目的地,每个人都在一个信奉公共自由的社会中追求自己的最大利益。

The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.

我在艺术和建筑中经历的过程,我实际上想让它几乎像孩子一样。有时候我觉得这很神奇。

This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became half her world.

这是她一生中唯一一次把书本作为走出牢房的门。他们成了她的半个世界。

Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.

青年必须勇往直前,繁荣昌盛。这些年轻的画家都很有才华,但他们都画壁画。

I feel very blessed. I have had, and am having, such a lovely life.

我觉得很幸福。我曾经有过,现在也正在有这样一种可爱的生活。

I really don't take any interest at all in contemporary comedy.

我对当代喜剧一点也不感兴趣。

I just want to grab your hand, And be like, You're mine.

我只想抓住你的手,告诉你,你是我的。

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

也许这个世界是另一个星球的地狱。