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没有人曾设饵

诱使乔治·威廉·弗雷德里克·黑格尔

做出最轻微的认错

为他的《现象学说》。

No one could ever inveigle

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Into offering the slightest apology

For his Phenomenology.

亨利·詹姆斯

憎恨夫人一词，

总是写成“女人”

还加引号区分

Henry James

Abhorred the word Dames,

And always wrote “Mommas”

With inverted commas.

当年幼的康德

被要求吻他的姑姑的时刻

他遵守绝对的律条，

但仅仅是刚好。

When the young Kant

Was told to kiss his aunt,

He obeyed the Categorical Must,

But only just.

塞壬·克尔恺郭尔极其

努力地尝试

向上纵身而弹

但却跌成一团。

Soren Kierkegaard

Tried awfully hard

To take The Leap

But fell in a heap.

尼采作为一个教员

有这样一个习惯

让关节喀喀作响

以强调他的主张。

Nietzche

Had the habit as a teacher

Of cracking his joints

To emphasize his points.

- 作者： philocity 2005年05月18日, 星期三 20:53 加入博采