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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The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.

奴隶主和奴隶之间的整个贸易，一方面是最激烈的激情、最不懈的专制统治和另一方面是卑贱的服从的永恒活动。我们的孩子看到了这一点，并学会模仿。

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I'd like to be rich. I'd like a lot of money to put into my physicals and to buy food for all my friends.

我想变得富有。我想要很多钱去做体检，给我所有的朋友买食物。

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People who exercise live longer, but what's the point when those extra years are spent at gym.

锻炼的人活得更长，但那些额外的时间花在健身房又有什么意义呢?

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We're like marauders out on the high seas.

我们就像公海上的掠夺者。

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