What I mean is that none of my talents had a - what's that great word - rubric. A singer, an actor, a dancer - there was nothing I could really say I was. The writing came much later. And, actually, thank God, because if I had said I'm a singer, I would really have just had one thing to do.

  • -- Steve Martin 史蒂夫·马丁

我的意思是,我所有的才能都没有一个——那个伟大的词是什么——规则。一个歌手,一个演员,一个舞者——我没有什么可以说我是。写作要晚得多。事实上,感谢上帝,因为如果我说我是一个歌手,我就只有一件事要做了。

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To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.

对于这一类人,我们可以把它留给改进本国的方言,用借用西方命名法的科学术语来丰富这些方言,并使它们逐渐成为向广大人民传播知识的工具。

The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star.

摇滚乐的伟大之处在于像我这样的人可以成为明星。

Nothing exists if a store doesn't buy it and you're not able to get it.

如果商店不买,而你又买不到,那就什么都不存在。

To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better.

不做坏事是好事;不希望有什么坏事会更好。