And what's fascinating in The Ten Thousand Things is that although there's time, an inexorable time of the three generations of lives, actively present, but place is the time, time doesn't really have to do with simply the human experience of it.

  • -- Robert Creeley 克里利

这一万件事中最吸引人的是,虽然有时间,一个三代人生活中不可阻挡的时间,积极地呈现,但是地点就是时间,时间并不仅仅与人类的经历有关。

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We are letting the dust settle around here. We are not pressed. We will let it all go for a couple of weeks or more, then it's decision time for the entire football team. I know the quarterback situation is marquee in everyone's minds. But we will deal with it.

我们让这里尘埃落定。我们没有压力。我们会让这一切过去几个星期或更长时间,然后是整个足球队的决定时间。我知道四分卫的情况在每个人的脑海里都是一个大帐篷。但我们会处理的。

If the audience is made to do not enough work, they resent it without knowing it. Too much and they get lost. There's a perfect pace to be found. And a perfect place that is different for every line of the play.

如果观众被要求做的工作不够多,他们就会在不知情的情况下产生反感。太多了,他们就会迷路。有一个完美的节奏可以找到。一个完美的地方,每句台词都不一样。

The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was. Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.

过去散发着传奇的气息:一个人不可能用时间的泥做纯泥。没有一种生命是可以完全重新获得的;因为它是。也就是说,所有的传记最终都是虚构的。

I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition.

我认为这是不公平的,但是他们有权利像容易犯错的、被弄得一团糟的人类一样不公平;这是人类的状况。

All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.

人类所有的罪,其后果似乎比其意图更为严重。

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

爱使你的灵魂从躲藏的地方爬出来。