关键词: affront
Young men soon give, and soon forget affronts, Old age is slow in both. 年轻人易施于人，也易忘于人之辱，两者老来不易。 -- Joseph Addison 约瑟夫·艾迪生
The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level. 这个世界认为自己被优越的品德所冒犯，乐于把它降低到自己的水平。 -- Samuel Richardson 塞缪尔·理查森
It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance. 用彬彬有礼的态度对待谎言是一种侮辱。 -- Thomas Paine 托马斯·潘恩
I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence. 我想认真对待你，但这样做会侮辱你的智力。 -- William F. Buckley, Jr. 小威廉·F·巴克利
And old affront will stir the heart Through years of rankling pain. 旧事重提会使人在多年的痛苦中振作起来。 -- Jean Ingelow 英格娄
A lie is an affront to the soul, as well as an insult to the intelligence of the person to whom one lies. 谎言是对灵魂的侮辱，也是对撒谎者智力的侮辱。 -- Judith McNaught 朱迪斯·迈克诺特
Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping. 每天醒来都是一种残忍，一种侮辱，她不睡觉来避免。 -- Gregory Maguire 格雷戈里·马奎尔
The ultimate affront, that neither hurries, grows weary nor forgets, is called death. 没有匆忙、没有疲倦、也没有忘记的终极冒犯，叫做死亡。 -- Ahmadou Kourouma 库鲁玛
He that boasteth of himself affronteth his company. 自吹自擂的人是在侮辱他的同伴。
Be like the thistle, O my soul, Heedless o' praise and quick to take affront. 我的心哪，你要像蓟一样，不顾别人的称赞，快快地去受人的凌辱。 -- Hugh MacDiarmid 麦克迪尔米德
Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw. 不要被笑话冒犯。人若把盐丢在你身上，你必不受伤，除非你是生的。 -- Oliver Goldsmith 奥利弗·戈德史密斯