A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

  • -- Ernest Hemingway 欧内斯特·海明威

要写一本真正有趣的书,一个人必须接受很多惩罚。

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I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting.

我更喜欢和孩子们一起工作,他们的生活可能被周末读一本书彻底颠覆。你给他们一本书读,他们回家后就变成了另一个人。这是非常有趣和令人兴奋的。

And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory.

而死刑,无论多么无效,无论出于何种无知,至少在理论上,都是一种严格的防卫行为。

Until you opened it, the book was nothing that an untrained eye would look twice at.

在你打开它之前,这本书根本不是未经训练的人会看两遍的。

Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.

让我们在学校重新引入体罚,并将其运用到教师身上。