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My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.

  • -- Sara Paretsky 莎拉帕勒斯基

我的父母是自由派知识分子，但他们甚至希望我呆在家里照顾弟弟妹妹，做家务。

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If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.

如果你是一名作家，你会把自己置身于一堵沉默的墙后，无论你在做什么，开车、散步还是做家务，你都可以写作，因为你有这样的空间。

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Even if you do something that others might consider wrong, you should at least be willing to talk about it and tell your parents what you're doing because you believe it's right.

即使你做了一些别人可能认为是错误的事情，你至少应该愿意谈论它，告诉你的父母你在做什么，因为你相信它是正确的。

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I was an adopted child of my grandparents, and I don't know how I can ever express my gratitude for that, because my parents would have been a mess, you know.

我是我祖父母的养子，我不知道该如何表达我的感激之情，因为我的父母会把事情弄得一团糟。

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Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.

知识分子认为思想比价值更重要。也就是说，自己的想法和别人的价值观。

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Liberals are stalwart defenders of civil liberties - provided we're only talking about criminals.

自由主义者是公民自由的坚定捍卫者——前提是我们只谈论罪犯。

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So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

据我所知，福音书中没有一个词赞扬智慧。

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I'm a housewife: I spend far more time on housework than anything else.

我是一个家庭主妇:我花在家务上的时间比花在其他任何事情上的时间都多。

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A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

自由派是一个心胸开阔的人，在争吵中不会站在自己一边。

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