Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.

  • -- Karel Capek 卡雷尔·卡佩克

任何加速都是进步,光荣小姐。大自然并不了解现代的工作速度。从技术的角度来看,整个童年都是一派胡言。只是浪费时间。简直是浪费时间。

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I spend a lot of my time trying to draw the attention of actors to the minute and subtle details of human behavior, which was the sort of thing I was looking at when I was a neurologist.

我花了很多时间试图把演员的注意力吸引到人类行为的细微细节上,这是我当神经学家时所关注的事情。

We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy has gone up.

我们已经留出数千万英亩的西北森林作为永久用地。失业率不是上升了,而是下降了。经济增长了。

Thus was the King and the Lord of glory judged by man's judgment, when manifest in flesh: far be it from any of his ministers to expect better treatment.

王与荣耀的主,在肉身显现的时候,就按人的审判受审判,他的大臣断没有指望得更好的。

There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by.

没有爱的眼睛注视,星星和花朵就不会有荣耀;四月的微风中没有一丝芬芳,直到他们飘过时,才带着喜悦的气息呼吸。

I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I was going to be when I grew up.

我一直想成为一名摇滚明星。那是我童年的梦想。这就是我告诉所有人我长大后要成为的人。

I had a great childhood. I think writers are always better off when they have more twisted childhoods, but I didn't.

我有一个美好的童年。我认为作家的童年经历越扭曲,他们的境况就越好,但我没有。

Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

现存的十分之九的书都是胡言乱语,而聪明的书则是对那些胡言乱语的驳斥。

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

但无论如何,关键是没有人承认上帝的存在,而每个人都是真实存在的。

Jill and I arrange our lives to spend a lot of time together. That makes us both happy.

吉尔和我安排了很多时间在一起。这让我们都很开心。

That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

愿意暂时停止怀疑,这构成了诗意的信仰。

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

没有一件事不是毫无意义的,它能很好地配合音乐。

I think my acceleration is very good. That's the key for me.

我认为我的加速度很好。那是我的钥匙。

My focus is on my constituents.

我的重点是我的选民。