No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place.

  • -- Isaac Babel 伊萨克·巴别尔

任何铁器都不能象在适当的位置放置一段时间那样有力地刺穿心脏。

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He has out-soared the shadow of our night; Envy and calumny and hate and pain, And that unrest which men miscall delight, Can touch him not and torture not again; From the contagion of the world’s slow stain He is secure, and now can never mourn A heart grown cold, a head grown grey in vain.

他飞过我们夜晚的阴影;嫉妒、诽谤、仇恨、痛苦,以及那种人们误称为快乐的不安,都不能触及他,也不能再折磨他;从这个世界缓慢的污点的蔓延中,他是安全的,现在他再也不会为一颗变得冰冷的心,一颗白头发的头而悲伤了。

When you're writing about people that are not very well off, you seem to see the kitchen sink. So it was a bit of a sort of cosy phrase that got used a bit too much.

当你写那些不太富裕的人的时候,你似乎看到了厨房里的水槽。所以这是一个使用得有点多的温馨的短语。

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.

无论如何,开始写作吧。直到水龙头打开,水才会流出来。

Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.

语法是言语的逻辑,就像逻辑是推理的语法一样。

It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.

我很荣幸能被你伤透了心。

Better when birds sing than where irons ring.

鸟儿歌唱时,胜过熨斗响时。

A silver hammer breaks an iron door.

银锤打烂铁门。