The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.

  • -- Raymond Chandler 雷蒙德·钱德勒

从你试图和他谈生意的那一刻起,他就采取了绅士和学者的态度,从你试图接近他的道德操守的那一刻起,他就开始谈生意了。

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I've done about four deaths in films now, and I think it's quite good because then it's sort of a memorable moment in the film.

我已经在电影中完成了四次死亡,我认为这很好,因为那是电影中值得纪念的时刻。

Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.

什么都没有开始。没有第一个瞬间;没有一个字或一个地方能让这个故事或任何其他故事产生。

This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.

这是对一个绅士的最后考验:他对那些对他毫无用处的人的尊重。

Nothing like trapping the gentlemen where they couldn't get away.

没有什么比把绅士们困在他们逃不掉的地方更好的了。