The traits the word 'childish' addresses are seen so often in adults that we should abolish this age-discriminatory word when it comes to criticizing behavior associated with irresponsibility and irrational thinking.

  • -- Adora Svitak 邹奇奇

“孩子气”这个词在成年人身上经常出现,所以当我们批评与不负责任和非理性思维有关的行为时,我们应该废除这个年龄歧视的词。

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If you have a good ear for dialogue, you just can't help thinking about the way people talk. You're drawn to it. And the obsessive interest in it forces you to develop it. You almost can't help yourself.

如果你对对话有敏锐的听觉,你就会不由自主地想到人们说话的方式。你被它吸引了。对它的痴迷感迫使你去发展它。你几乎控制不了自己。

I cannot doubt that women will line up, like the men elected, with the groups whose political thinking and convictions are in accord with their own political convictions.

我毫不怀疑,妇女将象当选的男子一样,同其政治思想和信念与其本身的政治信念相一致的团体站在一起。

Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.

生孩子肯定是两个相爱的人所能做出的最美丽的非理性行为。

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

伟大的艺术和伟大的音乐一样是非理性的。它为自己的可爱而疯狂。