I have had my pen in my hand to begin a letter to you almost every day since you left Bath, but have always been prevented by some silly trifler or other.
自从你离开巴斯后,几乎每天都拿着笔开始给你写,但总是被一些愚蠢的其他人阻止。
Indeed the good sense which I have met with among the poor women who have had few advantages of education, and yet have acted heroically, strongly confirmed me in the opinion, that trifling employments have rendered women a trifler.
,在那些几乎没有受过教育的贫穷妇女中遇到的良好感觉, 但他们却勇敢地行动, 这强烈地证了的观点, 即琐碎的工作使妇女变得琐碎。
A man cannot tell whether Apelles, or Albert Durer, were the more trifler; where of the one, would make a personage by geometrical proportions; the other; by taking the best parts out of divers faces, to make one excellent.
一个人无法判断是阿佩莱斯还是阿尔伯特·杜勒更轻率;其中一个,将按几何比例制作人物;另一个; 通过从不同的面孔中提取最好的部分,使一个人变得优秀。