In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike.

  • -- Walter Horatio Pater 佩特

在某种意义上,我们甚至可以说,我们的失败在于形成习惯:因为,习惯毕竟是相对于一个刻板的世界而言的,而使两个人、两件事、两种情况看起来相似的,只是眼睛的粗糙。

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I basically get stereotyped a lot in terms of being a girl and writing 'chick' music for teenage girls or something. I think, if anything, the press kind of, because of my gender and my age, tends to kind of relegate my work to this sort of special-interest group. It's part of the cultural dynamic, I guess.

我基本上被定型为一个女孩,为十几岁的女孩写“小鸡”音乐之类的。我认为,如果有什么区别的话,媒体,因为我的性别和年龄,倾向于把我的工作归入这种特殊利益集团。我想这是文化动态的一部分。

You know as a scientist that both were developed completely independently of each other in the laboratories. And only afterward were the political situations contrived out of which they could be justified.

作为一名科学家,你知道它们都是在实验室里完全独立开发出来的。只有在这之后,政治形势才得以设计出来,使他们有理由这样做。

People who call themselves actors and can't ever get work; they do need to get another profession.

那些自称演员却永远找不到工作的人;他们确实需要另谋职业。

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.

所有人都有一个共同的奇迹:在那么多张面孔中,怎么会没有一张是一样的呢?

We're not all supposed to think alike.

我们不应该想的都一样。