News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead.

  • -- Evelyn Waugh 伊芙琳·沃

新闻是一个什么都不在乎的人想读的东西。在他看之前都是新闻。之后它就死了。

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When you're watching the news, how many days in a row can you watch that and feel good about yourself and the world?

当你看新闻的时候,你能连续看多少天,并且对自己和世界感觉良好?

Of, course it always cheers a news editor when a story has what we describe as 'legs' therefore it, erm, runs.

当然,当一个故事有我们所说的“腿”时,它总会让新闻编辑欢呼雀跃,因此,呃,它会跑起来。

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

我宁愿贫穷时住在书屋里,也不愿做一个没有读书欲望的国王。

I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.

令我羞愧的是,除了经典小说,我不怎么读小说。