It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.

  • -- David Foster Wallace 大卫·福斯特·华莱士

它可以成为一种尝试让读者喜欢和欣赏你的练习,而不是一种创造性的艺术练习。

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He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles.

一个人如果只运用他的一种智力,不管这种智力的运用是多么有用,是多么奇特,那么他和一个只知道运用肌肉的人一样,都是一种不完美的动物。

The exercise of singing is delightful to nature and good to preserve the health of Man.

歌唱运动对大自然是令人愉快的,有利于保持人类的健康。

I feel like im waiting for something that isn't going to happen.

我觉得我在等待一些不会发生的事情。

Believe it or not--it takes a lot of love to hate you like this.

信不信由你——像这样恨你需要付出很多爱。