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Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

  • -- Lionel Trilling 特里林

文学是一种人类活动，它对多样性、可能性、复杂性和艰巨性进行了最全面、最精确的描述。

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I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea.

我知道我自己的灵魂是多么软弱，多么渺小，我知道这事奉的重要性，这工作的艰巨性;因为惊涛骇浪比惊涛骇浪更能扰乱牧师的灵魂。

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We decided to try in vitro, because both Peter and I felt we couldn't handle another failure. When I miscarried after that, we had to come to terms with the possibility that this wasn't meant to be.

我们决定在体外试验，因为彼得和我都觉得我们不能再承受一次失败了。在那之后我流产了，我们不得不接受这样一种可能性，那就是这并不是命中注定的。

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Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy.

诗歌喜剧对我来说很有趣，因为押韵对联的写作是一种挑战，这种形式通常不适合英语，但对我来说，它为喜剧提供了很大的可能性。

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I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination.

我认为阅读对很多事情都很重要。我的意思是，首先，这是一种获取信息和了解世界上正在发生什么的方式。但它也有助于你的想象力。

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If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal digital public library.

如果我们能把一个人送上月球，并对人类基因组进行测序，我们应该能够设计出类似于一个通用数字公共图书馆的东西。

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What people value in their books and thus what they count as literature really tells you more about them than it does about the book.

人们在他们的书中看重什么，因此他们认为什么是文学，实际上比书本身更能说明他们的问题。

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And so from that, I've always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity.

因此，我一直着迷于这样一个想法，即复杂性可以来自于这样的简单。

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A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

经典是每个人都想读但没人想读的东西。

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There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

有些书的书背和封面是迄今为止最好的部分。

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Any book which inspires us to lead a better life is a good book.

任何能激励我们过上更好生活的书都是好书。

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Chaos is complexity viewed through a reductionist filter.

混沌是通过还原论过滤器观察的复杂性。

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Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

困难是历史永远不会接受的借口。

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Ride higher in life unto the higher life.

骑在更高的生活到更高的生活。

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I'm terribly human.

我非常人。

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