Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.

  • -- Walt Whitman 沃尔特惠特曼

其他国家的活力只存在于少数几个阶级之中,而我们大多数人却拥有这种活力。

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A lot of people put all that stuff on a pedestal, and they won't touch it. But I don't think that's the reason they did that. I think they played that stuff out of pure joy.

很多人把所有的东西都放在一个基座上,他们不会碰它。但我不认为这是他们那样做的原因。我想他们演奏那首曲子纯粹是出于高兴。

The bulk of life on Earth lives in a peaceful place where the temperature is stable. There's hunting going on, but it's very civilized, like a slow ballet.

地球上大部分的生命生活在一个温度稳定的和平的地方。那里有狩猎活动,但非常文明,就像缓慢的芭蕾舞。

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.

我似乎总能从你们这片突出于大西洋之外的伟大的小说土地上获得灵感和新的活力。

I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.

我从来没有想过要变得怪怪的。总是别人说我古怪。

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

我们当中很少有人有足够的精力使我们的本能变得专横跋扈。

I want to bulk up. I'm a skinny guy.

我想胖起来。我是个瘦子。

I'm a warrior for the middle class.

我是中产阶级的战士。

I'm painfully middle class.

我是痛苦的中产阶级。