When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.

  • -- Edmund Hillary 埃德蒙·希拉里

当你在高海拔地区攀登时,生活会变得相当痛苦。

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In my gym class, we had something called The Pit, this little alcove where we had to sit if we forgot our gym clothes. It was usually just the crippled kid, the pregnant girl, and me. It was pretty awkward, just hanging with all these freaks who didn't want to show their legs.

在我的体育课上,我们有一个叫做“坑”的地方,这是一个小凹室,如果我们忘了带运动服,我们就得坐在那里。通常只有跛脚的孩子,怀孕的女孩和我。和这些不愿露出腿来的怪胎们在一起,真的很尴尬。

For me, writing a novel is more like digging a well than climbing a mountain - some heroic thing where I set out to conquer. I just sit quietly for a few years, and then it starts to become something.

对我来说,写小说更像是打一口井,而不是爬山——一件我要征服的英雄壮举。我只是静静地坐了几年,然后它开始变得有意义。

That process by which you become a writer is a pretty lonely one. We don't have a group apprenticeship like a violinist might training for an orchestra.

你成为作家的过程是一个相当孤独的过程。我们没有像小提琴手为管弦乐队训练那样的集体学徒制。

I say we are climbing out of a ditch and we are climbing up.

我说我们正在从沟里爬出来,我们正在往上爬。