I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.

  • -- Rudyard Kipling 鲁迪亚德·吉卜林

我袭击了一座城市——一座真正的城市——他们管它叫芝加哥……我迫切希望再也不要见到它。那里住着野蛮人。

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It was a bright, clear afternoon in the late fall that pretty Miss Cable drove up in her trap and waited at the curb for her father to come forth from his office in one of Chicago's tallest buildings.

那是深秋一个晴朗的下午,漂亮的凯布尔小姐开着马车来到路边,等着她父亲从芝加哥最高的建筑物之一的办公室里出来。

San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.

旧金山是一个疯狂的城市——居住着绝大多数完全疯狂的人,他们的女人有着非凡的美丽。

When you get to know me, I don't despair - I just get up, clean up, and start again.

当你了解我的时候,我并不绝望——我只是站起来,清理干净,然后重新开始。

I'm mature enough to forgive you, but i'm not dumb enough to trust you again.

我已经成熟到可以原谅你了,但我还没有笨到可以再次信任你。

Love is not selective, desire is selective. In love there are no strangers.

爱不是选择性的,欲望是选择性的。爱情里没有陌生人。

We didn't make the mistakes that many other cities did.

我们没有犯其他许多城市所犯的错误。

But my favorite band is Curbside Life, out of Chicago.

但是我最喜欢的乐队是芝加哥的路边生活。

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

诸神之中,唯有死亡不渴求恩赐。