"The thing that makes me loved the most is trust me enough to make terrible,terrible jokes whether they are just bad, or don't make any sense, or are really offensive and they know that I get,at least, where they are coming from.

VOA: standard.2010.02.13

This may be the most memorable sentence in modern poetry: "a terrible beauty is born".

这是现代诗歌里,最令人难忘的句子了：,一种惊人之美诞生了。

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Without question he's the most terrifying of all of the mourners, and he gives an angry, powerful, vitriolic speech about the terrible state of England - the terrible state of the Church of England and, as a consequence, of the terrible state of England in 1637.

毫无疑问他是所有送葬者中最可怕的，他做了一番愤怒，有力，刻薄的讲话,大谈英格兰的糟糕状况,-1637年间英格兰教堂的糟糕状况，及由此产生的英格兰的糟糕状况。

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