A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

  • -- Ralph Waldo Emerson 拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生

人是败坏的神。当人是清白的时候,生命就会更长久,就会进入不朽,就像我们轻轻地从梦中醒来一样。

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Today we no longer regard the universe as the cause of our own undeserved troubles but perhaps, on the contrary, as the last refuge from the mismanagement of our earthly affairs.

今天,我们不再把宇宙看作是我们自己不应该遇到的麻烦的根源,相反,也许我们把宇宙看作是我们对尘世事务管理不善的最后避难所。

This summer, we need to let our kids go play and we need to stop worrying about whether or not it's going to ruin their chances of getting into college.

今年夏天,我们需要让我们的孩子去玩,我们需要停止担心这是否会毁了他们上大学的机会。

Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journalistic sin.

隐瞒会导致无辜民众死亡的信息是正确的做法,而不是新闻犯罪。

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.

人老了,就像一堆别人寄来的信。我们不再是过去的我们,我们已经到来。

Touch us gently, Time! Let us glide adown thy stream, Gently, - as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream!

轻轻地抚摸我们,时间!让我们沿着你的溪流轻轻地滑行吧,就像我们有时滑过宁静的梦境一样!

The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.

蛇的调解是必要的。恶能诱惑人,但不能成为人。

Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.

只有垄断者才会研究一家企业,并通过赠送产品来毁掉它。

A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.

投机者是观察未来,并在它发生之前采取行动的人。

There are very few innocent sentences in writing.

在写作中很少有无辜的句子。