Well I tried to, but I could never write anything that I liked or was worthwhile. I threw it all out and realized that I had to make a serious study- that my tastes were far more advanced than my abilities.

  • -- Elliott Cook Carter Jr 小艾略特·库克·卡特

我试过,但是我从来没有写过我喜欢的或有价值的东西。我把这些都扔掉了,意识到我必须认真学习——我的品味远远超过了我的能力。

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Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.

现在在科学中已经确立了这样一种观点:如果有原因和开始,那么除了通过研究其原因和开始之外,就不可能获得任何知识;除非知道它的事故和伴随的要点,否则它不会完成。

We were the finest. We were the best in the world. We were a department that people came from all over the world to study, to look at, to see how we accomplished so much with so little; and we did.

我们是最棒的。我们是世界上最好的。我们是一个来自世界各地的人们来学习的部门,来看看我们是如何用这么少的资源取得这么大的成就;我们所做的。

A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.

那样的爱是一种严重的疾病,一种你永远无法完全康复的疾病。

All the things I used to like - cookies, ice cream, gumbo - I don't like anymore.

我以前喜欢的所有东西——饼干、冰淇淋、秋葵汤——我都不喜欢了。

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

生活是一件太重要的事,永远不能严肃地谈论。

I was very restless, but finally I found my way.

我很不安,但终于找到了路。