A man honestly tries to make a good impression. What is the result? The result merely is that his friends, in the privacy of their minds, set him down as a man who tries to make a good impression.

有人真心实意地去努力留下一个好印象。但结果却怎样呢,不过是被他的朋友们在内心深片认为他是一个刻意给人留下好印象的人。

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If much depends on the result of a single interview, or a couple of interviews, a man may conceivably force another to accept an impression of himself which he would like to convey.

如果一切只凭着单独会一次面或见几次面,--这个人倒很能迫使另一个人接受他本人希望造成的某种印象。

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But if the receiver of the impression is to have time at his disposal, then the giver of the impression may just as well sit down and put his hands in his pockets

但是如果接受印象的人有足够的时间来自由支配,那么印象的给予者就干脆束手静坐了

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For nothing that he can do will modify or influence in any way the impression that he will ultimately give.

因为他的所有的招数丝毫改变不了或影响不了他最终所造成的都是无意而不是刻意造成的。

属类：文学表达-英语散文-人生随想

The real impress is, in the end, given unconsciously, not consciously; and further, it is received unconsciously, not consciously. It depends partly on both persons. And it is immutably fixed beforehand. There can be no final deception…

真正的印象是在结尾,是无意而不是刻意造成的。同时,它也是无意而不是刻意接受的。它的开成要靠双方,而且是事先就已经确定的,最终的欺骗是不可能的……

属类：文学表达-英语散文-人生随想

I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a box car in a freight yard in Atlantic City and landing on my head.

在我4岁时,我从大西洋城里一个货场的货车上下摔了下来,头先着地,于是我失去了视力。

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Now I am thirty-two. I can vaguely remember the brightness of sunshine and what color red is.

现在我32岁了,我能模糊地记起阳光的灿烂,红色的鲜艳。

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It would be wonderful to see again, but a calamity can do strange things to people.

能恢复视力当然是件奇妙的事情,但一场灾难也可以对人产生奇妙的作用。

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It occurred to me the other day that I might not have come to love life as I do if I hadn' t been blind.

有一天,我突然想到,如果我没有成为盲人,我可能不会像现在这样热爱生活。

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I believe in life now. I am not so sure that I would have believed in it so deeply, otherwise.

现在,我相信生活,但我不能肯定,如果自己的视力正常,会不会像现在这样深深地相信生活。

属类：文学表达-英语散文-人生随想