I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel. I'm not a novelist, I'm a writer.

  • -- Aleksandar Hemon 亚历山大·黑蒙

当有人叫我小说家时,我总是抗拒:这暗示了小说固有的某种优越性。我不是小说家,我是作家。

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This implies that the laws governing organic cohesion, the organization leading from the part to the whole, represent a biological uncertainty, indeed an uncertainty of the first order.

这意味着支配有机凝聚力的法律,即从部分到整体的组织,代表着一种生物学上的不确定性,实际上是一种一级的不确定性。

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

要抵抗老年的寒冷,就必须把身体、思想和心灵结合起来。为了保持这些活力,我们必须锻炼、学习和热爱。

A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.

大规模的移民必然意味着这个被遗弃的国家的某种或那种不幸。

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

我从不抗拒诱惑,因为我发现对我有害的东西不会诱惑我。