Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.

  • -- Evelyn Waugh 伊芙琳·沃

职业评论家在工作中读了太多的坏书,以至于他们对引人入胜的语句产生了一种不健康的渴望。

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I did always dream of being a professional player. I think every kid does dream of being a pro, but to last the journey you have to love tennis as a sport and if you are lucky enough to make it in the pros, it is really a bonus.

我一直梦想成为一名职业球员。我想每个孩子都梦想成为一名职业网球运动员,但要走完这段旅程,你必须热爱网球这项运动,如果你足够幸运能进入职业网球运动员行列,这真的是一个额外的收获。

Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

为幸福而追求幸福,你不会找到它;追求责任,幸福就会随着阳光而来。

The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.

专业写作的最大障碍是更换打字机色带的必要性。

Motown will always be a heavy-duty part of my life because those are my roots.

摩城将永远是我生活中重要的一部分,因为这是我的根。

To encounter a fine book and have time to read it is a wonderful thing.

遇到一本好书并有时间去读它是一件美妙的事情。

Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

每个人都是一卷书,如果你知道怎么读他。