A book is never finished; it's abandoned.

  • -- Gene Fowler 吉恩·福勒

一本书永远写不完;这是放弃了。

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Well-founded fear, which takes one through the valley of the shadow of death without abandoning one there, is what makes the worst of worse journeys; the situation is made all the more intense when the fear is somehow mingled with delight.

有充分根据的恐惧,它带你穿过死亡阴影的山谷而不把你抛弃在那里,这是最糟糕的旅程中最糟糕的部分;当恐惧与喜悦交织在一起时,情况就更加紧张了。

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

对和平与进步的追求不可能在几年内以胜利或失败告终。对和平与进步的追求,连同它的考验和错误、成功和挫折,绝不能放松和放弃。

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.

作家喜欢猫是因为它们安静、可爱、聪明,而猫喜欢作家也是出于同样的原因。

Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.

与狂热想象的梦境相比,现实似乎毫无价值;因此,现实被抛弃了。

But there came a point when one abandoned hope for faith, and trusted fate for charity.

但是,当一个人放弃了对信仰的希望,而把命运托付给慈善事业的时候,事情就发生了变化。

Books appear to be the most immediate instruments of speculative delight.

书籍似乎是投机取乐最直接的工具。