After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.

  • -- George Ade 乔治·艾迪

在被众多出版商拒绝后,他决定为子孙后代写作。

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It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the publisher of a newspaper in this country, without a very exhaustive advertising support, would receive less reward for his labor than the humblest mechanic.

是广告客户为订户提供报纸。毫无疑问,在这个国家,如果没有详尽的广告支持,报社的出版人所得到的报酬,会比最卑微的机修工所得到的报酬还要少。

I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.

我希望后代对我的评价是仁慈的,不仅对我所解释的事情,而且对那些我故意省略的事情,以便留给别人去发现的乐趣。

I used to beat myself up about weight and working out, and no matter what I did I never felt good about myself. I decided to accept myself and know that I am good.

我曾经因为体重和锻炼而痛打自己,无论我做什么,我从来没有对自己感觉良好。我决定接受自己,我知道我很好。

I have things planned for every character like what they're doing down the road and coming to different realizations but I don't have how they overlap.

我为每一个角色都做了一些计划,比如他们在未来要做什么,以及实现不同的目标,但我不知道它们是如何重叠的。

If, at the close of business each evening, I myself can understand what I've written, I feel the day hasn't been totally wasted.

如果每天晚上下班时,我自己都能理解我写的东西,我就会觉得这一天并没有完全被浪费掉。

I do change the odd lightbulb, and I fix the Internet when it goes down, because it's something I am really good at.

我确实会换一些奇怪的灯泡,当它坏了的时候我会修理互联网,因为这是我非常擅长的事情。

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

我写作的目的是为了获得一种放松的感觉,达到奶牛在挤奶时享受的功能。

Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.

既然我们不能活得长久,那就让我们把至少还活过的一些纪念留给后代吧。

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.

我似乎以无数的形式,无数次地爱着你,在生命中,在岁月中,直到永远。

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

对于一个失去家园的人来说,写作变成了生活的地方。

Textbook publishers don't even bother to advertise at their conventions.

教科书出版商甚至懒得在他们的大会上做广告。

The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.

花是单一的,不必嫉妒荆棘众多。

Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me.

每天都有很多人写关于我的文章,甚至没有采访过我。

Indians are numerous in the tropical regions; not so elsewhere.

热带地区有许多印第安人;其他地方并非如此。

When Garcia died, and I decided not to play, I came out here.

加西亚死后,我决定不玩了,我来到这里。

Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.

作为一个女人,我只讨厌爬树。

I trust god with my life after all, he gave it to me.

我用我的生命相信上帝,毕竟他给了我生命。

One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.

一个传教士使我兴奋,另一个使我沮丧。

Who the hell said you no longer had it in you?

到底是谁说你不再拥有它了?

I have turned down a lot of garbage lately.

我最近拒绝了许多垃圾。

I believe in being an innovator.

我相信要做一个创新者。