When this boy was brought to Dr. Young, his name being William, the same as mine, my mother was ordered to change mine to something else. This, at the time, I thought to be one of the most cruel acts that could be committed upon my rights.

  • -- William Wells Brown 布朗

当这个男孩被带到杨医生那里时,他的名字叫威廉,和我的名字一样,我妈妈奉命把我的名字换成别的名字。在当时,我认为这是对我的权利所能采取的最残酷的行为之一。

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Things that go on at Happy Times are very funny this year, and if you were watching last year, some of the people you saw then as basically extras emerge as real characters in their own right this season, at least to some degree.

今年在欢乐时光里发生的事情非常有趣,如果你在去年看这部剧,你会发现一些人在这一季中扮演了一些额外的角色,至少在某种程度上是真实的角色。

I thought I had a clear picture of death, but now I know it's a mystery and it will always be a mystery, although it is something we all have in common: everybody knows that life ends with death.

我以为自己对死亡有了一个清晰的认识,但现在我知道这是一个谜,而且永远是个谜,尽管这是我们都有一个共同点:每个人都知道生命以死亡结束。

I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things.

我小时候喜欢写作。我写过,但我一直以为那是你小时候做的事,然后你就把幼稚的东西收起来了。

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, "Why not?" and the other, "Why bother?"

中年是生命中令人困惑的时刻吗?我们听到两个声音在呼唤我们,一个说:“为什么不呢?”另一个说:“为什么呢?”

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

我不需要一个随我改变而改变,随我点头而点头的朋友;我的影子做得更好。

Second chances. They don't even matter, people never change.

第二次机会。它们根本不重要,人永远不会改变。