The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

  • -- Terry Pratchett 泰瑞·普莱契

当然,思想开放的问题在于,人们会坚持走过去,并试图把东西放进去。

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The mind will say this forever. But I mostly fish rivers these dayas. In so doing, movement becomes stasis, flux is the constant, and everything flows around, through, and beyond me, escaping ungrasped, unnamed, and unscathed. The river's clean escape does not prevent belief in its reality.

思想会永远这样说。但这些天我主要在河里钓鱼。这样做,运动变成了停滞,流动是不变的,一切都在我周围流动,穿过我,超越我,逃离我没有抓住的,没有命名的,没有受伤的。这条河的脱险并不妨碍人们对它的真实性的信念。

Learning about all those different things psychologically - about grief and my own addictions and problems and stuff like that, and really getting an education on it, I think it was part of the process of it, learning about it and trying to lick it.

从心理上了解所有这些不同的事情——关于悲伤、我自己的上瘾和问题等等,并真正接受相关的教育,我认为这是过程的一部分,了解它并试图克服它。

For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. His hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.

因为,如果一个从未见过火的人用令人满意的论据证明火是燃烧的。他的听众永远不会满足,除非他把手伸进火里,通过实验来学习论证所教的东西,否则他也不会避开火。

When she became very ill with heart trouble, I saw that it would be impossible for my parents to provide for my studies, and I obtained their permission to go to sea to make a career for myself there.

当她因为心脏病病重时,我意识到我的父母不可能供我读书,于是我得到了他们的许可,去海上谋生。

One of the things that happens in my house on the holidays is after dessert, we sit down to a very ambitious men-versus-women game of Trivial Pursuit. It's brutal. And there's a trophy.

在我的房子里,在假日里发生的一件事就是饭后甜点,我们坐下来玩一个非常有野心的男人对女人的琐碎的追求游戏。这是残酷的。还有一个奖杯。

There is no point trying to figure out who is guilty or not at un-balancing the planet. I think we need to figure out and solve the problems together and not isolate from each other.

试图找出谁在破坏地球平衡方面有罪或无罪是没有意义的。我认为我们需要共同解决问题,而不是相互孤立。

I don't think of myself predicting things. I'm expressing possibilities. Things that could happen. To a large extent it's a question of how badly people want them to.

我不认为自己能预测事情。我表达的可能性。可能发生的事情。在很大程度上,这是一个人们多么希望他们这样做的问题。

A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.

一个自由思考自己观察到的东西的头脑,如果对世界没有任何有用的东西,也很少不自娱自乐。

I felt it, but I couldn't really hear it. The only people who knew it hit me were me and Steve. It was a lucky break, what can you say?

我能感觉到,但我听不见。唯一知道这件事的人是我和史蒂夫。这是个幸运的机会,你能说什么呢?

When you value someone, it merely shows that you truly have no idea about the person that they aren't showing you.

当你重视一个人的时候,这仅仅表明你真的不了解他们没有向你展示的那个人。

It was like pulling teeth trying to get me to L.A. I hated it for so long, but now I've got this great life here.

这句话的意思是:“要把我送到洛杉机去,我真是费了九牛二虎之力。我恨了好久,但是现在我在这儿过得很好。”

People always figure it's the color guard, but seriously, it's the woodwinds you've got to look out for.

人们总是认为是彩色警卫队,但说真的,你要小心的是木管乐器。

There have to be more important things going on in the world than my past.

世界上一定有比我的过去更重要的事情在发生。

You're constantly trying to prove yourself, even after you've made it.

你一直在努力证明自己,即使你已经做到了。

The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind.

剑伤身,利剑伤心。

Many gloat over their own troubles.

许多人对自己的麻烦幸灾乐祸。