The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

  • -- E. M. Forster E·M·福斯特

人生主要有五件事:出生、食物、睡眠、爱情和死亡。

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As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of a poet is always a threat to the existing cultural order, because he attempts to break through the circle of literary castes to reach the center.

正如诗人所预料的那样,警钟现在敲响了,因为——必须再说一遍——诗人的诞生总是对现存的文化秩序构成威胁,因为他试图突破文学阶层的圈子,到达中心。

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

我越来越尊重事实,越来越不尊重理论。在我看来,事实是一件伟大的事情;一个句子,如果不是上帝印的,那么至少是魔鬼印的。

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.

游戏节目的设计是为了让我们对我们所受的教育中剩下的随机的、无用的事实感觉更好。

Nowhere on your birth certificate did it say that life would be easy.

你的出生证明上没有任何地方写着生活会很容易。

Cinnamon bites and kisses simultaneously.

肉桂边咬边吻。

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

一顿美餐应该从饥饿开始。