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，我几乎每天都拿着笔开始给你写信，但总是被一些愚蠢的小事或其他人阻止。

Henry Adams was Darwinist because it was easier than not, for his ignorance exceeded belief, and one must know something in order to contradict even such triflers as Tyndall and Huxley.

亨利·亚当斯是达尔文主义者， 因为这比不那么容易， 因为他的无知超出了信仰， 而且一个人必须知道一些事情才能反驳甚至像廷德尔和赫胥黎这样的无足轻重的人。

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.

事实上，我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， 这强烈地证实了我的观点， 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。