1. 即使如此，他也不会充分利用自身的特质，反倒愈对它们感到厌倦。
2. 尽管这些都没学成，他还是下定决心用知识武装自己，以胜任这些工艺。
3. 尽管他明白这些毫无用处，他还是坐下来，细数曲颈瓶里的水滴，忘却了每滴的降落，意味着每一时刻的逝去。
1. Some are always in a state of preparation.
in a state of：处于……的状态
2. ...when all the world agrees to shut out interruption.
shut out：排除；把……关在外边
第19章 四条基本价值观
What Are People Good for
？艾娜·科林娜·布朗 / Ina Cqrinne Brown
One’s beliefs are revealed not so much in words or in formal creeds as in the assumptions on which one habitually acts and in the basic values by which all choices are tested.