A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

  • -- Samuel Johnson 塞缪尔·约翰逊

一般来说,男人在餐桌上享用一顿美餐时比他妻子讲希腊语时更高兴。

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My older sister was at the cusp of new wave, and I had older brothers from my father's first marriage who were rock 'n' roll guys, so I was exposed to a lot of popular culture.

我姐姐正处于新浪潮的风口浪尖,而我父亲第一次结婚时的哥哥都是摇滚乐手,所以我接触到了很多流行文化。

One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.

从家庭计算机革命中得到的最好的东西之一,可能是对逻辑究竟有多么有限的普遍和广泛的理解。

How often one reads a contemporary full-length novel and thinks quietly, mutinously, that it would have worked out better at half or a third the length.

有多少次,一个人在读一本当代的长篇小说时,会不动声色地、反叛地想,要是能读到一半或三分之一的篇幅就更好了。

It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do.

不管你或其他人能做什么,它都会和你在一起,或好或坏。

Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.

基本上我的妻子是不成熟的。我在家里洗澡,她进来把我的船弄沉。

Women in general want to be loved for what they are and men for what they accomplish.

一般来说,女人希望被爱是因为她们是什么样的人,而男人希望被爱是因为他们的成就。