At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.

  • -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning 伊丽莎白·巴雷特·布朗宁

在痛苦的时刻,当写作是不可能的,阅读是不够的,语法和字典是很好的分散注意力。

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I will give you three days to seek your shadow. Return to me in the course of that time with a well-fitted shadow, and you shall receive a hearty welcome; otherwise, on the fourth day - remember, on the fourth day - my daughter becomes the wife of another.

我给你三天的时间去寻找你的影子。到那个时候,你带着一个合身的影子回到我这儿来,你就会受到热烈的欢迎。否则,在第四天——记住,在第四天——我的女儿成为另一个人的妻子。

I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labeling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood.

我认为解释信仰是不可能的。这就像试图解释空气一样,一个人无法通过将空气分成不同的组成部分并科学地给它们贴上标签来解释空气。只有呼吸才能被理解。

Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.

自由地看,英语是每一种方言、种族和时间范围的增加和发展,是所有语言的自由和紧凑的组成。

The natural urge when running a distance is to push harder and finish sooner - to race against time. Every second behind a deadline is a little defeat.

当跑一段距离时,自然的冲动是更努力地跑,更快地完成——与时间赛跑。最后期限过后的每一秒都是小小的失败。

It is impossible to discourage real writers, they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.

要让真正的作家泄气是不可能的,他们根本不在乎你说什么,他们会去写作。

I don't listen to much modern composition.

我不怎么听现代作曲。