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Writing about dead white males seems to be out of favor among academics.

  • -- Ron Chernow 荣·切尔诺

写死去的白人男性似乎在学术界不受欢迎。

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I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world, so that those notes and rhythms mean something to you besides just the academic way in which they fall in place.

我想说的是美学命题，它来自于对一个世界的人类元素的学习，所以这些音符和节奏对你来说，除了它们在学术上的地位之外，还有其他的意义。

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When I was an academic, I'd sometimes get a little feeling of excitement when I had an idea that was, I hoped, fresh. And whether anyone should act on that idea is a very different question.

当我还是个学者的时候，当我有了一个我希望是新鲜的想法时，我有时会感到有点兴奋。而是否有人应该按照这个想法行事，则是一个完全不同的问题。

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Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.

任何一个坐下来思考有多少人知道他或她恋爱的真实情况的人，都能看出写传记有多难。

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The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.

写作需要不断地回到过去的阴影中，时间像幽灵一样徘徊。

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I don't want to be dead. I haven't been loved this way for long enough.

我不想死。我被这样爱的时间还不够长。

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I write plays for people who wouldn't be seen dead in the theatre.

我为那些不会死在剧院里的人写剧本。

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