I'm always prepared for the worst. I was prepared to have the book come out, sell seven copies, and have to keep working in advertising, so it was just great that it was received so well and by such a huge audience.

  • -- Augusten Burroughs 奥古斯丁·巴勒斯

我总是做最坏的打算。我准备出版这本书,卖出七本,还要继续在广告业工作,所以这本书受到如此多的读者的欢迎,这真是太棒了。

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Though actually the work of man's hands - or, more properly speaking, the work of his travelling feet, - roads have long since come to seem so much a part of Nature that we have grown to think of them as a feature of the landscape no less natural than rocks and trees.

但实际上人的手的工作——或者,更确切的说,他的脚的工作,道路似乎早就来这么多自然的一部分,我们已经把它们作为景观的一大特色自然不比岩石和树木。

Coming from a farming background, I saw nothing out of the ordinary in running barefoot, although it seemed to startle the rest of the athletics world. I have always enjoyed going barefoot and when I was growing up I seldom wore shoes, even when I went into town.

我出身于农民家庭,赤脚跑步并没有让我看到任何不同寻常的地方,尽管这似乎让田径世界的其他人感到震惊。我一直喜欢赤脚走路,在我的成长过程中,我很少穿鞋,即使我进城。

So, I'm happy to do that because it's a wonderful working relationship but I will be going out for pilot season for half hour work and that's the gamble I'm taking.

所以,我很乐意这么做,因为这是一段美好的工作关系,但我要在试播季出去工作半个小时,这是我在冒险。

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.

上帝禁止任何一本书被禁。这种做法和杀婴一样站不住脚。

The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.

要读的书不是为你着想的书,而是让你思考的书。