October 3rd 2016 Week 41st Monday

Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

与其诅咒黑暗，不如燃起蜡烛。

Sitting in the darkness and waiting for others to light the candle, that may be the life style I really want to live.

But if no one can light the candle for you, what should you do?

Rather than waiting for others to give the right direction, I had better to find the right direction.

There are many ways, there are numerous possiblities.

If you think you are destined to failure, why not just have a try?

 

OED wears its status with a magisterial self-assurance, not least by giving its half million definitions a robustly Victorian certitude of tone.

牛津英语词典以一种威严的自信来显示他的重要地位，他以维多利亚时代那种坚决肯定的语气来给五十万个词汇下了定义。