A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.
一个故事永远不会像别人买的时候那么好。
A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.
一个故事永远不会像别人买的时候那么好。
A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order.
一个故事应该有开头、中间和结尾……但不一定是这个顺序。
A story with a moral appended is like the bite of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.
一个带有寓意的故事就像被蚊子咬了一口。它会让你感到厌烦，然后注入一颗刺痛的水滴来刺激你的良心。
A storyteller is basically what actors and writers are.
基本上讲故事的人就是演员和作家。
A storyteller makes up things to help other people; a liar makes up things to help himself.
讲故事的人编故事是为了帮助别人;说谎者为了帮助自己而编造谎言。
A strange manner of battle, where one side works by constant motion and ceaseless charges, while the other can but endure passively as it stands fixed to the sod.
这是一种奇特的战斗方式，一方靠不断的运动和不断的冲锋作战，而另一方则只能被动地忍受，因为它是固定在地上的。
A strange, horrible business, but I suppose good enough for Shakespeare’s day.
这是一件奇怪而可怕的事情，但我想对莎士比亚时代来说已经足够好了。
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
临时投票只能说明热空气往哪个方向吹。
A street thug and a paid killer are professionals - beasts of prey, if you will, who have dissociated themselves from the rest of humanity and can now see human beings in the same way that trout fishermen see trout.
街头暴徒和职业杀手都是职业杀手——如果你愿意，可以说是食肉动物，它们已经脱离了人类，现在可以像钓鳟鱼的渔民那样看待人类。
A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.
有野心的人手握伤害的力量是危险的。
A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.
必须作出艰苦的努力，训练年轻人独立思考，对自己的生活负责。
A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.
一棵受了伤的树，一种有生命的东西，如此美丽，如此高贵，其潜在的寿命是如此令人钦佩，也许是仅次于人类的最令人感动的受伤的东西。
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
一连串兴奋的、转瞬即逝的、杂七杂八的快乐不是幸福;幸福存在于想象的反思和判断中，当一个人的生活，或人类生活的画面，真实的过去或现在，满足了意志，并被欣然接受。
A strong foe is better than a weak friend.
坚强的敌人胜过软弱的朋友。
A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.
一个强壮的男人并不一定要对女人有支撑力。他没有把自己的力量与一个爱他的软弱女人相比。他把它与世界作比较。