Does rhetoric seem to you to be an experience? That is my view, but you may be of another mind. An experience in what? An experience in producing a sort of delight and gratification. And if able to gratify others, must not rhetoric be a fine thing? What are you saying, Polus? Why do you ask me whether rhetoric is a fine thing or not, when I have not as yet told you what rhetoric is? Did I not hear you say that rhetoric was a sort of experience?英文原著 · 《Gorgias》
But as without a Thou there can be no You, so without a You no They, These, or Those; and as all these conjointly form the materials and subjects of consciousness and the conditions of experience, it is evident that conscience is the root of all consciousness--a fortiori, the precondition of all experience--and that the conscience cannot have been in its first revelation deduced from experience.英文原著 · 《Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit etc》
A popular notion akin to this, that the world would have any room for the departed if they should now and then return, is the constant regret that people will not learn by the experience of others, that one generation learns little from the preceding, and that youth never will adopt the experience of age. But if experience went for anything, we should all come to a standstill; for there is nothing so discouraging to effort. Disbelief in Ecclesiastes is the mainspring of action. In that lies the freshness and the interest of life, and it is the source of every endeavor.英文原著 · 《The Complete Writings-1》
Flea-bitten sages in stone-age hovels. Wandering wise man with a rolling eye, a fakir under a tree, a Jewish sheik, an Arab epileptic. ." "Would you sweep away the experience of mankind?" protested Benham. The experience of mankind in these matters had always been bitter experience. Most of it was better forgotten. It didn't convince. It had never worked things out. In this matter just as in every other matter that really signified things had still to be worked out.英文原著 · 《The Research Magnificent》
"Well, then, of course I don't pretend to foreknowledge; but I do to experience, and you know experience teaches the wise."英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
"You see, you don't understand the situation," he began. "In the first place, the blacks have to be ruled sternly. Kindness is all very well, but you can't rule them by kindness only. I accept all that you say about the Hawaiians and the Tahitians. You say that they can be handled that way, and I believe you. I have had no experience with them. But you have had no experience with the blacks, and I ask you to believe me. They are different from your natives.英文原著 · 《Adventure》
Every Cher experience should be - a shared experience. - Shared experience.美剧 · 《Modern Family》
I'm not 100 percent watching because I'm so engrossed in the second screen experience, but according to the second screen experience, other people are loving the show.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
Ugh, Ross! That was not a near death experience! That was barely an experience!美剧 · 《Friends》
...meaningless experience to meaningless experience.美剧 · 《Friends》