We are often too late with our brilliance. We are on time delay. The only instant gratification comes in the form of potato chips. The rest will find us by surprise somewhere down the road maybe as we sleep and dream of other things.

  • -- Richard Schiff 理查德·希夫

我们的聪明才智往往来得太晚。我们准时到达。唯一的即时满足感来自于薯片。其余的人会在我们睡觉和做其他梦的时候,在路上某个地方意外地发现我们。

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If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it.

如果一种商品毫无用处,换句话说,如果它对我们的满足感毫无帮助,那么它就没有可交换的价值,无论它有多么稀缺,也无论购买它需要多少劳动力。

The same practice was continued every evening through the whole course, and with the same success. Many individuals expressed their gratification at having discovered such simple means of relieving the tedium of a long discourse.

在整个课程中,每天晚上都进行同样的练习,并取得了同样的成功。许多人表示,他们很高兴发现了这样一种简单的方法,可以减轻冗长演讲的沉闷。

I probably would be continuing to do voice-overs, continuing to do cartoon shows, and at the same time I'd probably be on a sitcom or a dramatic television show.

我可能会继续做画外音,继续做卡通节目,同时我可能会出演情景喜剧或戏剧电视节目。

A person shows himself for an instant as in a photograph but clearer and in the background something which is bigger than his shadow.

一个人会像在照片中一样,在一瞬间展现自己,但在背景中,他会比自己的影子更清晰。

In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.

顺便说一句,我想说的是,亚当第一次有机会把责任归咎于一个女人。

I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time.

我把速溶咖啡放进微波炉里,差点让时光倒流。