A man that had a very course voice, but an excellent musique-room, would be still practicing in that chamber1, for the advantage of the echo.
He took such a conceit2 upon that he must needs be showing his parts upon a public theatre, where he performed so very ill, that the auditory hissed3 him off the stage, and threw stones at him.
We rarely see ourselves as others see us.
有這樣一個人,他的聲音不怎么樣,但練歌房卻很好,他經(jīng)常在房間里練歌,因為房間的回音使他的歌聲顯得非常好聽。
他對誤以為真,覺得自己必須在劇院里向公眾一展他的歌喉。但是,他演唱得非常糟糕,觀眾把他噓下了臺,還向他扔石頭。
我們對自己的了解程度遠(yuǎn)不及別人對我們的了解。