It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

  • -- T. S. Eliot T.S.艾略特

很明显,我们不能向一个从未经历过激情的人解释激情,就像我们不能向盲人解释光一样。

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I would go to them and I would explain this is the price of going forward. We're going to move ahead in all these other areas. We're moving ahead in tax reform and GST, we are moving ahead on trade, but this will not be done at the cost of the environment.

我会向他们解释这是未来的代价。我们将在所有其他领域取得进展。我们正在推进税收改革和消费税,我们正在推进贸易,但这不会以环境为代价。

Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time.

永远不要用“听众”这个词。“除非诗人是为了钱而写作,否则公众的想法在我看来就是错误的。诗人没有“听众”。他们一直在和一个人说话。

I'm always touched by people's different stories of who they are and why they made the choices that they made. I feel so empowered by the story behind the person.

我总是被人们关于他们是谁以及他们为什么做出这样的选择的不同故事所感动。我觉得这个人背后的故事给了我很大的力量。

It was just a funny notion about everything. We were lucky that Jane had such a passion for it and she, from the beginning, wanted the two of us; Dolly and me.

这只是一个有趣的想法。我们很幸运,简对它有这么大的热情,她从一开始就想要我们俩;我和多莉。

I can't explain it. It's what turns you to powder, being ground between what you can't do and what you must do. You just turn to dust.

我无法解释。它把你变成粉末,在你不能做的和你必须做的之间被磨碎。你就会化为尘土。

They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity.

那些告诉我们爱会死的人是有罪的:在生活中,所有其他的激情都会飞走,其他的都只是虚荣。

It's like our relationship is always about the other side that isn't the obvious side.

就好像我们的关系总是围绕着不那么明显的另一面。

To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.

把显而易见的东西说出来往往会使人对它产生怀疑。