Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency to get the book written.

  • -- William Faulkner 威廉·福克纳

一切都随波逐流:荣誉、骄傲、体面,这些都是写这本书所需要的。

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There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.

一个伟大的国家所能招致的灾难,没有一场比得上它在仰面屈服于错误和不公正,从而丧失民族自尊和荣誉之后所带来的灾难,而在这些错误和不公正之下,人民的安全和伟大得到了保护和捍卫。

The more the words of others impressed him with their factual content, the more he felt he must wait for his own facts before being tempted into words.

别人的话越是以事实内容打动他,他就越觉得自己必须等待自己的事实,然后才会动口。

We all know writing is a reclusive, lonely endeavour. It just is. But nobody writes alone.

我们都知道写作是一种隐居、孤独的努力。它只是。但是没有人单独写作。

I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.

我既不应该得到如此多的荣誉,也不应该蒙受如此多的耻辱。