All the principal people in the town are concerned in the slave trade, and their chief wealth consists in the number of slaves they possess; therefore there is little chance of the trade being, for many years, totally abolished.

  • -- Sir George Grey 乔治·格雷爵士

城里所有的主要人物都与奴隶贸易有关,他们的主要财富在于他们拥有的奴隶数量;因此,多年来,这种贸易几乎不可能完全废除。

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It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality.

在我看来,有两种骗术:一种是人们在彼此眼前呈现的“门面”,另一种是作家在现实面前呈现的“门面”。

People live their lives like something’s chasing them and by the time you get to the end, you look back and wonder if it was all worth it.

人们的生活就像有什么东西在追着他们,当你走到最后的时候,你回头看,会想这一切是否值得。