there is not much to choose between men. they are all a combination of greatness and littleness, of virtue and vice, of nobility and baseness.
人与人之间并无多大区别,皆为伟大与渺小、善良与邪恶、崇高与低俗的整体。
in most other respects there is not much to choose between people of 50 and of 15, apart from a bit of experience and a great many wrinkles.
在其它大多数方面,50岁与15岁的人之间几乎没多大差别,前者只不过多了一点点经历和一大堆皱纹。
this was, if you like, a north atlantic crisis, with not much to choose between the messes of the old world and the new.
如果不介意,实际上可将它命名为北大西洋危机,新旧世界的混乱难分伯仲。