The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

  • -- Albert Schweitzer 艾伯特·施韦策

在暴风雨面前弯下腰的柳树,往往比抵抗暴风雨的橡树逃得快;因此,在重大灾难中,有时轻浮轻浮的人比高尚的人更容易恢复他们的弹性和镇定。

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I was pleased when the picture was over I fit in all right and I spoke well enough as I said before, cause I was scared to death there for a minute. I mean, you're doing a scene with somebody like that or they're watching you or something, you'd better come up with something.

我很高兴,当照片结束时,我很好地融入了,我说得很好,就像我之前说的,因为我在那里害怕了一分钟。我的意思是,你在和这样的人拍戏,或者他们在看着你,你最好想点什么。

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

人类所处的环境使人类遭受了无数的痛苦和悲伤,然而,仿佛大自然在生活中播种的罪恶还不够多,我们还在不断地增加痛苦,通过彼此间的残忍对待使共同的灾难更加恶化。

Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.

每一种经验都是矛盾的,因为它意味着绝对,但又是相对的;在某种程度上,它总是超越它自己,但从不逃脱它自己。

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

没有一种爱情是完全没有价值的,即使是轻浮的呼唤着轻浮的和卑劣的呼唤着卑劣的。

A lot of people still think caring about clothes is a dubious, unserious, frivolous, girlie thing.

很多人仍然认为关心衣服是一件可疑的、不严肃的、轻浮的、娘娘腔的事情。

Better when birds sing than where irons ring.

鸟儿歌唱时,胜过熨斗响时。