Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.

  • -- Iris Murdoch 默多克

文学可以说是一种激发特定情感的有纪律的技巧。

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There was a stage when Balanchine and I didn't talk. I was trying to develop my classical technique as opposed to the fast-track technique that he was pushing. We were very quiet with each other. But after two years he saw what I was doing and sent messages through other people that, yes, this is good.

有一段时间,巴兰钦和我没有说话。我试图发展我的古典技巧,而不是他所提倡的快速技巧。我们彼此都很安静。但两年后,他看到我在做什么,就通过其他人发信息说,是的,这很好。

Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into a stable and impersonal time schedule.

因此,如果没有把所有的活动和相互关系最准时地整合到一个稳定而客观的时间表中,都市生活的技巧是无法想象的。

The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time - but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.

网络迫使我严于律己,不浪费时间——但在网络发明之前,无论如何都有很多这样做的机会。