The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.

  • -- Terry Southern 剧作家邵

写作中最重要的是让人惊讶的能力。不是震惊——震惊这个词已经过时了——而是震惊。

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If I don't get the service or if I don't the ball in the box, where I want it, I start drifting into midfield. I go and look for the ball. I try to be important for the team in other areas.

如果我没有得到发球权,或者我没有把球踢进禁区,我就开始向中场移动。我去找球。我努力在其他领域成为团队的重要一员。

The more worrying feature of the new global corporate structures is their capacity to devastate national labour markets by transferring their operations to cheaper locations overseas.

新的全球企业结构更令人担忧的特点是,它们有能力将业务转移到海外成本更低的地方,从而摧毁国内劳动力市场。

I think one of the important things that's happened in the course of the century is that life expectancy has doubled.

我认为本世纪发生的一件重要的事情是预期寿命翻了一番。

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

没有一件事不是毫无意义的,它能很好地配合音乐。