Books are only the shadow and life the real thing. I believe this as strongly as any belief I hold.

  • -- Esther Forbes 埃丝特·福布斯

书只是影子,生活才是真实的东西。我和我的任何信念一样坚信这一点。

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That was me under the bath and the water being held down. The director wanted it to look as real as possible so he told Keanu, in front of me, don't go easy on her. So it was scary.

那是我在浴缸里,水被压着。导演想让它看起来尽可能真实,所以他告诉基努,在我面前,不要对她太宽容。所以很可怕。

Some people may have noticed the new computer shelf at the anchor desk. Rather than phone calls, we want to take real time e-mails, and we'll be starting that very soon.

有些人可能已经注意到了锚台的新电脑架子。我们想要的不是电话,而是实时的电子邮件,我们很快就会开始这样做。

My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.

我的书是挽歌,从某种意义上说,它们是对一个国家的颂歌,就连我有时也认为,这个国家可能已经不复存在,只存在于我的记忆和想象中。

When I was in my twenties and broke, I'd buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours, a good book will sustain you for life.

当我二十多岁身无分文的时候,我会先买书再买食物。一顿饭可以支撑你几个小时,一本好书可以支撑你一生。

The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in look as much like home as we can.

我们能做的最好的事情就是让我们迷失的地方看起来像我们的家一样。

I've lived, laughed, lost, and loved again the whole Shakespearian thing.

我经历过,笑过,失去过,又爱上了莎士比亚的一切。