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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Even such an obvious idea as to observe an animal with vertigo or to rotate an animal did not occur to him, in spite of the fact that he conducted numerous vertigo experiments with human subjects and made frequent use of animal experiments.

即使是这样一个显而易见的想法,比如观察一只患有眩晕症的动物或旋转一只动物,他也没有想到,尽管他对人体进行了多次眩晕实验,并经常使用动物实验。

I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence.

我为自己的直率道歉,但每当我看到一部莎士比亚戏剧的半正式演出落幕时,我都感到有些悲伤,因为我永远不会认识这个人,或者任何一个如此热情睿智的人。

Ultimately, I'm not the most prolific person, but I've been doing this for a long time, and I keep on putting out music. The only thing that drives music is the people who are making it.

最终,我并不是最多产的人,但我已经这样做了很长时间,而且我一直在发布音乐。推动音乐发展的唯一动力是音乐制作者。

Work? I never worked a day in my life. I always loved what I was doing, had a passion for it.

工作吗?我一生中从未工作过一天。我一直热爱我所做的事情,对它充满激情。

Putting on a fake smile, so you don't have to explain why you're not happy.

假装微笑,这样你就不用解释为什么不开心了。

If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.

如果一个人从不自相矛盾,那一定是因为他什么也不说。

If you can't explain it, how can you take credit for it?

如果你不能解释,你怎么能把它归功于你呢?

Long before I had money, my passion for cars was there.

早在我有钱之前,我对汽车的热情就在那里了。