It would be a pity to retard our development by holding back those people who are gifted enough to work and play well with less than the average amount of sleep, if indeed it does them no harm.

限制那些有足够天赋、即使睡眠少于平均值却能很好地工作和娱乐的人会阻碍我们的发展，这将是一件憾事，如果这确实对他们没有害处的话。

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As prescribed by Dryden, tragedy was supposed to concern a heroic man who is a public figure and who undergoes a fall that evokes pity from the audience.

正如德莱顿所说，悲剧应该是关于一个英雄人物的故事：他是一个公众人物，经历了一场磨难，让观众同情。

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They could only meet once a year on a bridge formed by magpies, who took pity on the separated couple.

他们一年只能够在桥上见一次面，而这座桥是由怜悯他们的喜鹊搭好的。

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Congress Party officials say the young politician, a nephew of party boss Sonia Gandhi, has been misled by BJP leaders and they feel pity for him.

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But every society has a poor storm that wretches suffer in, and the attitude is always the same: either that the wretches, already dehumanized by their suffering, deserve no pity or that the oppressed, overwhelmed by injustice, will have to wait for a better world.

NEWYORKER: The Caging of America

The group's campaign, called " Stop the Pity, " was launched here at the South by Southwest Interactive conference in Austin, Texas.

CNN: Africa doesn't need our 'pity'

Too much of the second half is consumed by the nocturnal niceties of a drug plot a pity, because a film about the joys and travails of the American military abroad could hardly be more apposite.

NEWYORKER: Buffalo Soldiers