I feel like a hostage to fortune. Not that I am complaining. I wanted to play the role. But in truth I didn't think the show would be such a success. OK, I thought it would fail. Not because it was bad. I was confident it was good, but plenty of good things just sort of wither on the vine.

  • -- Hugh Laurie 休·劳里

我觉得自己像是命运的人质。我不是在抱怨。我想扮演这个角色。但事实上,我并不认为这部剧会如此成功。好吧,我以为会失败。不是因为它不好。我很有信心它是好的,但是很多好的东西只是在藤上枯萎了。

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I guess I didn't feel confident enough to be searching in a big public way. I was very content at the time to toil in obscurity on things that I thought might point me in certain directions or teach me certain things - not knowing what that would be.

我想我没有足够的信心在大庭广众之下进行搜索。那时,我很满足于默默无闻地从事我认为可能为我指明方向或教会我某些东西的工作——不知道那会是什么。

Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.

统计数据表明,当客户抱怨时,企业主和管理者应该对此感到兴奋。抱怨的客户代表着更多业务的巨大机会。

Possibly because I grew up not feeling very confident about my own physical appearance, I developed internal devices so that I could integrate into society.

可能是因为我从小对自己的外表不太自信,所以我开发了一些内部设备,这样我就可以融入社会。

So if people will pay attention to what I say because of our success as a group, I am going to use that.

所以,如果人们会因为我们作为一个团队的成功而注意到我说的话,我就会使用它。

It is harder to be poor without complaining than to be rich without boasting.

穷人不抱怨比富人不自夸更难。

Striking out Ruth and Gehrig in succession was too big an order.

接连淘汰露丝和格里格实在是太过分了。