A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about inventing.

  • -- Paul Theroux 保罗·泰鲁

一本旅行书是关于一个人,他去了某个地方,在地面上旅行,看到了一些东西,花了很多时间去做它,经历了一段艰难的时光,然后回来写了一些关于它的东西。这与发明无关。

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I would have to say I'm bored with the standard rock, guitar solos, but I've done it for five albums now, and this time I wanted to go in a completely different direction. I wasn't interested in showing off any more.

我不得不说我已经厌倦了标准的摇滚,吉他独奏,但我已经做了五张专辑,这一次我想走一个完全不同的方向。我再也不想炫耀了。

You know, you can be really quite subversive in popular fiction, which is capable of taking on big issues of politics, war, the rise and fall of commercial dynasties.

你知道,在通俗小说中你真的可以很具有颠覆性,通俗小说可以涉及政治、战争、商业王朝的兴衰等重大问题。

Quite a few operas are still being commissioned around the world, although nothing apart from audience popularity can ensure more than a few performances.

世界各地仍有不少歌剧在演出,但除了观众的欢迎程度,没有什么能比几场演出更能保证演出的成功了。

Inventing is a skill that some people have and some people don't. But you can learn how to invent.

发明是一种技能,有些人有,有些人没有。但你可以学习如何发明。

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

一个敢于浪费一小时时间的人没有发现生命的价值。

There is no re-inventing the wheel.

没有重新发明轮子。