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.

自从你离开巴后，我几乎每天都拿着笔开始给你写，但总是被一些愚蠢小事或其他阻止。

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·是达尔文主义者， 因为这比不那么容易， 因为他无知超出了仰， 而且一个必须知道一些事情才能反驳甚至像廷德尔和赫胥黎这样无足轻。

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贫穷妇女中遇到良好感觉， 但他们却勇敢地行动， 这强烈地证实了我观点， 即琐碎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.

一个无法判断是阿佩莱还是阿尔伯特·杜勒更轻率；其中一个，将按几何比例制作物；另一个; 通过从不同面孔中提取最好部分，使一个变得优秀。