It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

-- George Bernard Shaw 萧伯纳

这是年轻人能为老年人做的一切，让他们震惊，让他们跟上时代。

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It's amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the young composers who come to work with me say is that they want to write music people will like, instead of gaining their credentials by being rejected by the audience.

令人惊讶的是，几代人很快就忽略了其他几代人。和我一起工作的年轻作曲家们说的第一件事就是他们想创作人们喜欢的音乐，而不是通过被观众拒绝来获得他们的证书。

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Bernard Shaw said that when you copy yourself, you know you've got style. And I feel that if you can write like you write, then you are true to yourself. And it's not an easy thing to do - it's a disgustingly difficult thing to do.

萧伯纳说过，当你模仿自己的时候，你就知道你有自己的风格。我觉得如果你能像你写的那样，那么你就是真实的自己。这不是一件容易的事情——这是一件令人厌恶的困难的事情。

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The generation which lived through the Second World War is disappearing. Post-war generations see Europe's great achievements - liberty, peace and prosperity - as a given.

经历过第二次世界大战的一代人正在消失。战后一代把欧洲的伟大成就——自由、和平与繁荣——视为理所当然。

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