斯威夫特《格列佛游记》：
nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.
没有比较，就分不出大小来。
原文：
Undoubtedly philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison. It might have pleased fortune to let the Lilliputians find some nation where the people were as diminutive with respect to them, as they were to me.
毫无疑问，还是哲学家们说得对，他们说：没有比较，就分不出大小来。命运也许就喜欢这样捉弄人，让利立浦特人也找到一个民族，那儿的人比他们还要小，就像他们跟我比起来一样。
