The art of biography is different from geography. Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.

  • -- Edmund Clerihew Bentley 埃德蒙·克莱赫·本特利

传记的艺术不同于地理。地理是关于地图的,而传记是关于人物的。

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I failed world geography, civics, Spanish and English. And when you fail Spanish and English, they do not consider you bilingual. They may call you bi-ignorant because you can't speak any language.

我的世界地理、公民、西班牙语和英语都不及格。当你的西班牙语和英语不及格时,他们不会认为你会说两种语言。他们可能会叫你“双盲”,因为你不会说任何语言。

Biography is now more or less a branch of psychiatry.

传记现在或多或少是精神病学的一个分支。

Everything has to do with geography.

一切都和地理有关。

I had lost faith in biography.

我对传记失去了信心。