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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Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality.

数学作为人类思维的一种表达方式,反映了人类积极的意志、沉思的理性和对审美完美的渴望。其基本要素是逻辑与直觉、分析与建构、共性与个性。

Well, sometimes if I go out to dinner with my family, people will come up to me and put their hand across my plate for me to shake, sometimes when I have a bite of food in my mouth. I find this a bit disturbing.

嗯,有时候如果我和我的家人出去吃饭,人们会走到我面前,把他们的手放在我的盘子上让我握手,有时候当我嘴里有食物的时候。我觉得这有点令人不安。

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。

I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us.

我觉得总有什么东西试图把我们拉回到睡眠中,在所有吸引我们的享乐主义快乐中都有这种诱人的特质。

I'll miss the comments from the people on the street who love the show and who have felt its impact on the culture. I won't miss the shooting schedule, though!

我会想念街上那些热爱这部剧、感受过它对文化影响的人们的评论。不过我不会错过拍摄计划的!

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

少数伟大的思想足以赋予人类巨大的力量,但少数伟大的心灵不足以使我们值得使用它。

I felt very honored, and I knew that people would be watching very closely, and I felt it was very, very important that I do a good job.

我感到非常荣幸,我知道人们会密切关注我,我觉得把工作做好是非常非常重要的。

I don't want to see blood spewing out but I don't mind it in controlled environment. Does it make me squeamish? No.

我不想看到血喷涌出来,但我不介意在受控的环境中。这让我恶心吗?不。

I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse.

我拍了四十多部西部片。我过去常常整夜躺在床上,绞尽脑汁想办法上马下马。

If I've got food and water, as long as I can exercise my mind and keep it nimble, then I'll be okay.

如果我有食物和水,只要我能锻炼我的思维,保持敏捷,那么我就会没事。

I don't like being lied to, so I only lie about the stupid things. White lies, basically.

我不喜欢被骗,所以我只会在愚蠢的事情上撒谎。善意的谎言。

When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.

谈到汽车,只有两种人是可能的——懦夫和傻瓜。

Well. I'm probably not loving myself like I should, but I'm really trying.

好。我可能没有像我应该的那样爱自己,但我真的在努力。

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

烦恼是生活的公分母。这是一个伟大的均衡器。

Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else and failing.

独创性在于试图像其他人一样,但失败了。

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

社会尊重活着的墨守成规者和死去的捣乱者。