Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

  • -- H. L. Mencken 门肯

历史学家:不成功的小说家。

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As a novelist, I suppose I can say that I'm highly articulate. But I know, as a person, in other ways, I'm not always articulate. I think we are all, from time to time, inarticulate, at some level, about some things.

作为一个小说家,我想我可以说我的表达能力很强。但我知道,作为一个人,在其他方面,我并不总是能言善辩。我认为,在某种程度上,我们有时,对某些事情都是口齿不清的。

I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.

我不是政治家。我是一名历史学家,通过毕生的研究,我认识到,世界上没有什么比普及教育更好。

I ain't no historian but I happen to savvy this incident.

我不是历史学家,但我碰巧知道这件事。

Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.

乔伊斯是一位诗人,也是一位笨拙的学究。