All my ambition is, I own, to profit and to please unknown; like streams supplied from springs below, which scatter blessings as they go.

  • -- Charles Cotton 译者考敦

我承认,我所有的雄心壮志都是为了谋利,为了讨好不知名的人;好像泉源从地底下发出来的溪水,边流边散祝福。

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The craft of writing is all the stuff that you can learn through school; go to workshops and read books. Learn characterization, plot and dialogue and pacing and word choice and point of view. Then there's also the art of it which is sort of the unknown, the inspiration, the stuff that is noncerebral.

写作技巧是你可以在学校学到的所有东西;参加研讨会和读书。学习人物塑造,情节和对话,节奏,词汇选择和观点。还有一种艺术是未知的,灵感,非大脑的东西。

Therefore I would not have it unknown to Your Holiness, the the only thing which induced me to look for another way of reckoning the movements of the heavenly bodies was that I knew that mathematicians by no means agree in their investigation there of.

因此,我不愿让它不为陛下所知,唯一促使我寻求另一种计算天体运动的方法的是,我知道数学家们在研究天体运动时决不同意这一点。

Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.

不要做任何你没有勇气祈求上天赐福的事情。

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

变化,像阳光一样,可以是朋友也可以是敌人,可以是祝福也可以是诅咒,可以是黎明也可以是黄昏。