I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

  • -- Blaise Pascal 巴斯卡

我把这封信写得比平常长,只是因为我没有时间把它写得短些。

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Similarly, thought is a system. That system not only includes thought and feelings, but it includes the state of the body; it includes the whole of society - as thought is passing back and forth between people in a process by which thought evolved from ancient times.

同样,思想也是一个系统。这个系统不仅包括思想和情感,还包括身体的状态;它包括整个社会,因为思想是在人与人之间来回传递的,思想是从古代进化而来的。

I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland.

我说:在几十年的流离失所、殖民占领和无休止的苦难之后,我国勇敢和自豪的人民象地球上其他民族一样自由地生活在一个主权和独立的家园中的时候到了。

Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.

写你想读的故事。人们会给你各种各样的写作建议,但如果你不写你喜欢的东西,也没有人会喜欢它。

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

写下当下的想法。不期而至的往往是最有价值的。

I'm shorter, I don't have as many freckles as Ron, and I can't do magic.

我比较矮,没有罗恩那么多雀斑,而且我不会魔法。

The last day is way shorter than counting to ten.

最后一天比从一数到十要短得多。