If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?

  • -- Chuck Palahniuk 恰克·帕拉尼克

如果死亡意味着离开舞台的时间足够长,可以换一身戏服,以一个新角色的身份回来,你会放慢脚步吗?或加速?

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We also have the option of scanning in an image from outside the computer... a photo, or a sketch done with traditional tools; and we can then paint, manipulate, process, change, and further develop the image within the computer, watching our progress on the monitor.

我们也可以从电脑外扫描图像…用传统工具制作的照片或素描;然后我们就可以在电脑中绘制、操作、处理、改变和进一步发展图像,在显示器上观察我们的进展。

I've discovered that I've never had much respect for money, and that has meant that money has ended up ruling me a little bit more than it should have. So I'm trying to learn - at this late stage in life! - to actually control that.

我发现我从来就不太尊重金钱,这意味着金钱最终对我的统治比它应有的多了一点。所以我在努力学习——在人生的这个晚年!-实际控制它。

There's a lot about the character. It doesn't always happen, but there are some characters you really create a relationship with, almost as if they were your friend. And you never get into their heads again or think like them.

这个角色有很多特点。这种情况并不总是发生,但有些角色是你真正与之建立关系的,就像他们是你的朋友一样。你再也不会进入他们的脑海或者像他们那样思考。

Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything.

许多小说家把定义明确、精确的人物置于重要的历史背景中,而不管发生什么事,历史背景都是次要的。

Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.

与其说人是环境的产物,不如说人是环境的建筑师。

I think books that are meant to be read in the nighttime ought to confront the very fears that we're trying to think about.

我认为应该在夜间阅读的书籍应该直面我们试图思考的恐惧。

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he or she treats a person who can do them absolutely no good.

记住,衡量一个人的真正标准是他或她如何对待一个对他们毫无益处的人。

Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.

主啊,我们错了的地方,求你使我们愿意改变;在正确的地方,让我们更容易相处。

They're desperately searching for meaning in their lives but they will not crack the Bible open.

他们拼命地寻找生命的意义,却无法打开圣经。

Being honest to someone's face doesn't mean squat if  you end up lying behind their back.

对别人的脸诚实并不意味着你要蹲着,如果你最终躺在他们背后。

If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.

如果你老了,不要试图改变自己,改变你的环境。

I wanted people to see me, to change their minds about me.

我想让人们看到我,改变他们对我的看法。