Not being boring is quite a challenge.

  • -- Ian McEwan 伊恩·麦克尤恩

不无聊是一个相当大的挑战。

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I don't try to be completely calculating in everything I say and do, but there's no way I'm going to talk. There's no reason to. And that's why I'm such a boring interview, because I don't go for the shock value, or smartass answers.

我不会试图在我说的和做的每件事上都完全算计,但是我没有办法说话。没有理由。这就是为什么我是一个如此无聊的面试,因为我不追求令人震惊的价值,或聪明的答案。

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.

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。

Maybe philosophy - I love talking about ideas. Or maybe art history. I was thinking about psychology, then I got really afraid because everybody says it's terribly boring.

也许是哲学——我喜欢谈论思想。或者艺术史。我在想心理学,然后我真的很害怕,因为每个人都说它非常无聊。

It must be quite rare for an interviewer to be interviewed.

面试官被面试的情况一定很少见。