What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and you need something bold, something savage, unpredictable, passionate. You can't really run a two-hour opera round some muted murmuring.

  • -- Ian McEwan 伊恩·麦克尤恩

我发现并向自己证实的是,歌剧真的很喜欢鲜艳的色彩,你需要一些大胆、野蛮、不可预测、充满激情的东西。你不可能围绕着一些无声的窃窃私语上演一部两小时的歌剧。

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I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place.

我本可以用这种方式赚钱,或许还可以自娱自乐地编写代码。但我知道,在我的职业生涯结束时,当我回首多年来筑起隔离人们的高墙时,我会觉得我的一生让世界变得更糟。

You have discovered so much kindness and good will to those you thought were oppressed, and had no helper, that I am sure you will not despise what I have wrote, if you judge it will be of any service to them.

你对那些你认为是受压迫的人,没有人帮助你的人,发现了那么多的仁慈和善意,所以我相信,如果你认为我写的东西对他们有用的话,你一定不会轻视我写的东西。

That's the way I got along in life. I don't ever remember being particularly jealous of anybody, because I figured if I can't do it myself, I don't deserve to get it.

这就是我的生活。我从来没有特别嫉妒过任何人,因为我觉得如果我自己做不到,我就不配得到它。

Measurements, observations, descriptions can only be considered scientific when they are independently confirmed by other people.

只有当测量、观察和描述得到他人的独立确认时,才能被认为是科学的。

I've discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that's already there.

我发现了一种新的电子技术,可以用已有的材料创造出新的语音。

If I'm confirmed, I'll be myself.

如果我被确认了,我就做我自己。