One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.

  • -- Ian McEwan 伊恩·麦克尤恩

一个人必须有悲观的勇气。

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A pessimist is a person who is always right but doesn't get any enjoyment out of it, while an optimist, is one who imagines that the future is uncertain. It is a duty to be an optimist, because if you imagine that the future is uncertain, then you mu.

悲观主义者总是对的,却不能从中得到任何快乐;乐观主义者则认为未来是不确定的。做一个乐观主义者是一种责任,因为如果你认为未来是不确定的,那么你就错了。

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

一个作家边写边写,就像他犯了相反的错误一样,应该受到谴责;因为这给他所说的话带来了一种迂腐的效果,同时也使他的话难以理解。

Deep Throat's information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected.

深喉的信息,在我看来,勇气,允许报纸使用他知道和怀疑。

I have no physical courage, I've asked for a double.

我没有身体上的勇气,我要双份的。