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My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

  • -- John Adams 约翰·亚当斯

我的国家为我安排了一个最微不足道的职位，这个职位是人类的发明或想象力所构想出来的。

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I don't usually direct actors in the classic sense of that word. Instead, I try to remind the characters before the shoot what's going on in a very simple way. I then watch them, their inventions as actors, approving or not approving what they're doing.

我通常不导演那种经典意义上的演员。相反，我试着在拍摄前用一种非常简单的方式提醒角色们发生了什么。然后我看着他们，看着他们作为演员的发明，看他们是否认可自己的行为。

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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。

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It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.

复制一个人看到的东西很好，但是把一个人现在只在记忆中看到的东西画出来要好得多。这是一种想象与记忆合作的转变。

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My dad was a golden gloves boxer in the Marine Corps, then a deputy sheriff. My mom worked as an office assistant.

我父亲是海军陆战队的一名金手套拳击手，后来当上了副警长。我妈妈是办公室助理。

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Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

没有什么地方比自己的灵魂更能使人安静，更能使人心平气和。

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The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.

所有无生命物体的目标都是反抗人类，最终打败人类。

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He who goes to bed with dogs, will wake up with fleas.

与狗同睡，醒来时身上长跳蚤。

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He begins to grow bad who believes himself good.

相信自己好的人，开始变坏。

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I invented the cordless extension cord.

我发明了无绳延长线。

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People can die of mere imagination.

人们可能仅仅因为想象而死亡。

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