A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.

  • -- Alice Duer Miller 米勒

一个孩子也永远无法理解这样一个事实:同样是这位母亲,她做饭做得那么好,那么关心他的咳嗽,那么慈祥地帮助他做作业,在某些情况下,她对他的感情不过是隐藏在他内心世界的一堵墙。

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I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you don't experience either one of those, you're being deprived of something.

我认为如果你是一个作家,你所做的一切都有助于你写作。逆境和成功都在很大程度上造就了今天的你。如果你没有经历其中任何一种,你就被剥夺了一些东西。

That's what my mother did. And my father was the first person she'd met who treated her kindly. She was terrified of men, and she married a very meek, kind, dear man. And she had the upper hand. She ruled the roost.

我妈妈就是这么做的。我父亲是她遇到的第一个对她很好的人。她害怕男人,嫁给了一个非常温顺、善良、可爱的男人。她占了上风。她统治着这个家。

The system becomes more coherent as it is further extended. The elements which we require for explaining a new class of facts are already contained in our system. In false theories, the contrary is the case.

随着系统的进一步扩展,它变得更加连贯。我们解释一类新的事实所需要的要素已经包含在我们的系统中。在错误的理论中,情况恰恰相反。

I've never really taken more than four days off, so it was a lot for me to go away for three-and-a-half months. I went all over Europe. I walked on a whole bunch of beaches and I did a lot of thinking.

我从来没有真正休过超过四天的假,所以离开三个半月对我来说是很多的。我走遍了整个欧洲。我走在很多海滩上,思考了很多。

My books are about ordinary people placed in extraordinary situations who are able to draw upon their inner reserves to challenge the status-quo in life and navigate compelling human relationships.

我的书是关于普通人的,他们被置于不同寻常的环境中,他们能够利用自己的内在储备来挑战生活中的现状,驾驭令人信服的人际关系。

Many rock musicians are excellent cooks, I've found, and those that are prefer to eat their own cooking in the studio. I encourage this behavior as I also enjoy the benefits of fresh food.

我发现,许多摇滚音乐家都是出色的厨师,而那些更喜欢在录音室里自己做饭吃的人。我鼓励这种行为,因为我也享受新鲜食物的好处。

A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There's nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can say I've done is agitate the air ten or fifteen minutes and then boom - it's gone.

记者总是关心明天。昨天没有任何有形的东西。我只能说我所做的就是搅动空气十到十五分钟,然后轰的一声,它就消失了。

The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.

这四堵纸墙就像一座监狱,因为每一个想法都想从四面八方冒出来——每件事都与其他的事相联系,有时甚至比其他的都更紧密。

Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away.

有些人认为,真相可以隐藏一点掩盖和装饰。但随着时间的流逝,真假会渐渐显露出来。

I've decided to tell my kids things like: 'I love the way each of you tilted back your heads when you laughed.' I will give them specific stuff they can grasp.

我决定告诉我的孩子们这样的事情:“我喜欢你们每个人笑的时候把头往后仰的样子。我会给他们一些他们能掌握的具体内容。

We were constantly moving to different countries and adjusting to new things. It was such a free feeling. I'm glad I didn't have a traditional upbringing.

我们不断地搬到不同的国家,适应新的事物。这是一种如此自由的感觉。我很高兴我没有接受传统的教育。

When I come home, it's about my kid, who needs to eat, needs to do homework, and needs to get to basketball. I don't have a lot of time to think about me.

当我回到家,我的孩子需要吃饭,需要做作业,需要打篮球。我没有太多的时间来想我。

Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third.

物理学有一种方法,化学有另一种方法,生物学有第三种方法。

Alas, the world has never known a sound social fabric, a fabric sound and clean to the core and kindly. For it has ever turned its back on Man.

唉,这个世界从来没有一个健全的社会结构,一个健全而干净的结构的核心和善良。因为它从来没有背弃过人类。

How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?

为什么我们记得发生在我们身上的最微不足道的小事,却不记得我们有多少次向同一个人讲述过这些事情?

A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things.

许多人坚持在现代舞和芭蕾之间筑一道墙。我开始认为墙是非常不健康的东西。

I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.Come

我告诉别人我太笨了,不知道什么是不可能的。我的梦想太大了,有一半的时间我的梦想实现了

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.

把握生命的全部意义是行为人的责任,诠释生命的意义是行为人的问题,表达生命的意义是行为人的奉献。

People change. Feeling rearrange lovers drift. Friends have fits friends become enemies lovers become strangers that's life.

人改变。感情重新安排恋人漂泊。朋友有好有坏,朋友变成敌人,恋人变成陌生人,这就是生活。

The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.

气球只有一次生命,要想知道它们是否有效,唯一的方法就是尝试环游世界。

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

有些画家把太阳画成黄斑,有些画家把黄斑画成太阳。

Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.

我们看到的每件事都隐藏着另一件事,我们总是想看到被我们看到的东西所隐藏的东西。

OK, I've been very wild, but I've never really been the sort of person who goes that crazy!

好吧,我一直很狂野,但我从来都不是那种疯狂的人!

Being a father helps me be more responsible... you see more things than you've ever seen.

做一个父亲帮助我更有责任感…你看到的东西比你见过的要多。

To increase the zone of peace is to build the inner core of a stable international zone.

增加和平区,就是要建设稳定的国际和平区的核心。

The bird, the bee, the running child are all the same to the sliding glass door.

鸟儿、蜜蜂、奔跑的孩子,对那扇滑动玻璃门来说,都是一样的。

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

我通常要花三个多星期来准备一篇好的即席演讲。

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

如果一个人没有吃好饭,他就不能好好思考,好好爱,好好睡。

You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

当蜡烛比蛋糕贵的时候,你就知道自己老了。

I guess I didn't enjoy drawing very much. It was like homework.

我想我不太喜欢画画。就像家庭作业一样。

The more guitars we have onstage the better, as I'm concerned.

在我看来,我们舞台上的吉他越多越好。

Sometimes in the winds of change we find our direction.

有时候,在变化的风里,我们找到了方向。

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

每一个自然事实都是某种精神事实的象征。

If you like her, tell her. Maybe , she likes you too.

如果你喜欢她,就告诉她。也许,她也喜欢你。

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

你既可以是一个普通的局内人,也可以是一个普通的局外人。

I wish I had the nerve not to tip.

我真希望我有勇气不给小费。

The more cooks, the worse broth.

厨师越多,汤越糟。

It is not a fragrant world.

这不是一个芬芳的世界。