The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

  • -- Samuel Butler 塞缪尔巴特勒

让自己无聊的人比无聊的人更可鄙。

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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

真正的旅行者会发现无聊与其说是痛苦不如说是愉悦。这是他自由的象征——他过度的自由。当无聊来的时候,他接受它,不仅是哲学上的,而且几乎是愉快的。

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

没有理由感到无聊。难过的时候,是的。愤怒,是的。沮丧的,是的。疯狂的,是的。但无聊是没有借口的,从来没有。

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

然而,正是在我们的懒散中,在我们的梦想中,被淹没的真相有时会浮出水面。