五世纪早期的哲学家圣奥古斯丁写过一句名言：只要无人问起，他便知晓时间是什么。
Early fifth-century philosopher St. Augustine famously wrote that he knew what time was unless someone asked him.
在伦敦圣埃德姆德和解和平中心的一块标志上写道，“信仰是冲突的源泉之一”，后面还有这么一句，“也是化解冲突的力量之一”。
“Faith is a source of conflict,” reads a sign at St Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace in the City of London—adding that it can also be “a resource to transform conflict”.
我的书里有一句圣奥古斯汀（St. Augustine）的名言，他说的大意是这样的，“直到你问我时间的定义，我才知道时间是什么，不过我无法给你答案。”
It’s a famous quote that’s in my book from St. Augustine, where he says something along the lines of, “I know what time is until you ask me for a definition about it, and then I can’t give it to you.”
难道我们就得这样分别了吗？圣·约翰？你就这么离开我去印度，不说一句更好听的话吗？
Must we part in this way, St. John? And when you go to India, will you leave me so, without a kinder word than you have yet spoken?
“我在想，”主教说，“一句怪话，大概出自圣奥古斯丁：‘把你们的希望寄托在那个无可承继者的身上吧。”’
"I am thinking," replied the Bishop, "of a singular remark, which is to be found, I believe, in St." Augustine, - 'Place your hopes in the man from whom you do not inherit.
这两句诗的作者是大约1500年之前的一位诗人，他与我们的圣奥古斯丁(st Augustine)处于同一时代。
These lines belong in a poem about 1,500 years older, contemporary with our st Augustine.
这两句诗的作者是大约1500年之前的一位诗人，他与我们的圣奥古斯丁(st Augustine)处于同一时代。
These lines belong in a poem about 1,500 years older, contemporary with our st Augustine.
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