When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.

  • -- Abraham Lincoln 亚伯拉罕·林肯

当我准备和别人交谈时,我花三分之二的时间想他们想听什么,三分之一的时间想我想说什么。

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For a competitive junkie like me, golf is a great solution because it smacks you in the face every time you think you have accomplished something. That to me has taken over a lot of the energy and competitiveness for basketball.

对于像我这样喜欢竞争的瘾君子来说,高尔夫是一个很好的解决方案,因为每当你认为自己完成了什么事情的时候,高尔夫就会打在你的脸上。对我来说,这已经占据了很多精力和竞争力的篮球。

People aren't as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our 'civic duty' to vote, rejecting the role of compulsory constituent.

人们并不像政客们想的那么愚蠢。我们中越来越多的人对投票的“公民义务”一笑置之,拒绝扮演强制选民的角色。

Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them.

真奇怪,我们这些结了婚的人看到这些可怜的傻瓜们欺骗了我们,每个男人和妻子都盯着他们看,并对他们微笑,我们有多么高兴。

I bought all my friends guitars and I had a good time with my money. But then one day the IRS came knocking.

我给我所有的朋友都买了吉他,我用我的钱玩得很开心。但是有一天国税局来敲门。