Literature is not an abstract science, to which exact definitions can be applied. It is an Art rather, the success of which depends on personal persuasiveness, on the author’s skill to give as on ours to receive.

  • -- Arthur Quiller-Couch 亚瑟·奎勒枯赤

文学不是一门可以应用精确定义的抽象科学。这是一门艺术,它的成功取决于个人的说服力,取决于作者给予的技巧,也取决于我们接受的技巧。

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We had a very good meet. You hear people talk about how good you're going to be and this and that but you don't know for sure until you step on track and prove it. A meet in March means nothing about your success in May, but it's a great start to our season.

我们有一个很好的见面。你听到人们谈论你将来会有多好,诸如此类,但在你走上正轨并证明之前,你并不确定。三月的一场比赛对你五月的成功毫无意义,但是这是我们赛季的一个伟大的开始。

The whole of the hydrogen on the earth might be transformed at once and the success of the experiment published at large to the universe as a new star.

地球上所有的氢都有可能被瞬间转化,整个实验的成功也将作为一颗新星向宇宙宣告。