The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.
对于那些意识里主要装着自身欲望的年轻绅士,理解另一个灵魂这项艰难的任务,是做不来的。
— George Eliot · Middlemarch (1871–1872) · Chapter XII —
The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.
对于那些意识里主要装着自身欲望的年轻绅士,理解另一个灵魂这项艰难的任务,是做不来的。