The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.

  • -- George Steiner 斯坦纳

绝大多数的传记都是在家庭痉挛和遗忘之间的灰色过渡。

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The plan we developed to deal with al Qaeda depended on developing sources of human and technical intelligence that could give us insights into his plans at the tactical level. This is easy to say but hard to accomplish.

我们制定的对付基地组织的计划依赖于开发人力和技术情报来源,这些情报可以让我们从战术层面了解他的计划。这说起来容易,做起来难。

I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.

我不想写传记小说,尤其是因为我已经写了小说,我也不想挑战传记游戏的规则,尽管这些规则可能很武断。

Every combination of two or more human beings has both a useful aspect and a political aspect.

两个或两个以上的人的每一个组合都有一个有用的方面和一个政治方面。

I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies.

关于我的传记主题,我总是有大量的资料。