I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence.

  • -- Ian McEwan 伊恩·麦克尤恩

我为自己的直率道歉,但每当我看到一部莎士比亚戏剧的半正式演出落幕时,我都感到有些悲伤,因为我永远不会认识这个人,或者任何一个如此热情睿智的人。

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Anybody can be specific and obvious. That's always been the easy way. It's not that it's so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it's just that there's nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

任何人都可以是具体和明显的。这一直是简单的方法。并不是说不具体和不那么明显就很难做到;只是没有什么,绝对没有什么,是具体和明显的。

I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of.

有很长一段时间,我像个傻瓜一样生活,说我不会改变什么。这样说太傲慢了。我会改变很多。有些人我会避开。

You've probably noticed already that I'm dressed like a grown-up... I apologize to the Academy, and I promise that I will never do it again.

你可能已经注意到我穿得像个大人……我向学院道歉,我保证我再也不会这样做了。

Class clowns are never allowed to date anybody decent, but you don't get beaten up, you're invited to parties, and everybody likes you.

班上的小丑永远不允许和正派的人约会,但是你不会挨揍,你会被邀请参加聚会,每个人都喜欢你。

The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.

世界文明的命运取决于为全人类提供一种体面的生活水平。

Each time dawn appears, the mystery is there in its entirety.

每一次黎明来临,神秘就在那里。

Things aren't obvious unless we see them.

除非我们看到,否则事情并不明显。