What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.

  • -- Charles Dudley Warner 查尔斯·沃纳

从事园艺工作的人所需要的是一个有铰链的铸铁背。

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I could happily lean on a gate all the livelong day, chatting to passers-by about the wind and the rain. I do a lot of gate-leaning while I am supposed to be gardening; instead of hoeing, I lean on the gate, stare at the vegetable beds and ponder.

我可以高高兴兴地靠在一扇门上,整天跟过路的人聊着风和雨。我应该在做园艺的时候,却做了大量的门控工作;我没有锄地,而是靠在门上,盯着菜地沉思。

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

一生中只有一个朋友就够了;两个有很多;三个是不可能的。友谊需要生活的某种并行性,思想的共同体,目标的竞争。

Breathe in every word and every second because one day you'll be dying to have it all back again.

每一个字,每一秒都要呼吸,因为总有一天你会渴望再次拥有它。

The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.

作家迷迷糊糊地走出他的工作室。他想喝一杯。他需要它。

'I'll be back' always sounded a little girly to me.

“我会回来的”这句话在我听来总是有点娘娘腔。

Rock 'n' Roll, no roses or gardening.

摇滚乐,没有玫瑰和园艺。