I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.

  • -- Rita Dove 丽塔·达夫

我认为在我年轻的时候读莎士比亚的戏剧是非常重要的。他有能力让完全陌生的人活过来。

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I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that it is decided whether there will be anybody to understand their works in twenty years' time.

我建议我的年轻同事,交响乐作曲家,有时也去幼儿园看看。就是在那里决定了二十年后是否会有人理解他们的作品。

We have very strong intuitions about all kinds of things our own ability, how the economy works, how we should pay school teachers. But unless we start testing those intuitions, we’re not going to do better.

我们对自己的能力、经济如何运行、我们应该如何支付学校老师的工资等所有事情都有很强的直觉。但除非我们开始测试这些直觉,否则我们不会做得更好。

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。

Just to see him come on the stage was an event. They had very high risers, and back a little bit, so he'd walk around behind the risers and right across the front of the stage to the podium, remember?

仅仅看到他走上舞台就是一件大事。他们有非常高的立管,稍微向后一点,所以他会绕着立管走然后穿过舞台的正前方走到讲台上,记得吗?

Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even realized I was carrying.

就我个人而言,坦白是我做过的最重要的事情之一,把我从未意识到自己背负的谎言之石从我的肩膀上卸下来。

Sometimes it seems the only accomplishment my education ever bestowed on me was the ability to think in quotations.

有时候,我所受的教育赋予我的唯一成就似乎就是能够用名言来思考。

When I was young, I wanted to do something more low-key, like become a drummer in a rock band.

当我年轻的时候,我想做一些更低调的事情,比如成为一个摇滚乐队的鼓手。

Death comes for us all. Even for kings he comes.

死亡降临于我们每个人。他为君王而来。