Have I given any symptoms of an avaricious disposition? Have I obtained any grants from the crown since I have been placed at the head of the treasury? Has my conduct been different from that which others in the same station would have followed?

  • -- Robert Walpole 罗伯特·沃波尔

我有贪食的症状吗?自从我被任命为库务长以来,我从国王那里得到过拨款吗?难道我的行为和同岗位的其他人的行为不同吗?

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In so many ways, it feels the same now when I play as the very first time I picked up the instrument. There's always this sound out there that's just a little bit beyond my reach and I'm trying to get there and that just sort of keeps me going.

在很多方面,我现在演奏时的感觉和我第一次拿起乐器时的感觉是一样的。总有这样的声音在那里,只是有点超出我的能力,我试图达到那里,这只是某种程度上让我继续。

I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me.

我离开牙买加一段时间,因为作为一个艺术家,我需要体验不同的东西,看世界,拥有不同的能量。住在一个地方对我不好。

We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.

如果我们把恶习踩在脚下,我们就用恶习为自己制造了一架梯子。

I've been all sorts of different shapes and sizes at different times in my life.

在我生命的不同时期,我有各种不同的体型和尺寸。