In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.

  • -- W. Somerset Maugham 威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆

在乡村,夜晚的黑暗是友好而熟悉的,但在城市里,灯火通明,是不自然的,充满敌意和威胁的。它就像一只巨大的秃鹰在空中盘旋,等待时机。

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The classical guitar has a dynamic to it unlike a regular acoustic guitar or an electric guitar. You know, there's times when you should play and there's times when you gotta hold back. It's an extremely dynamic instrument.

古典吉他不像普通的原声吉他或电吉他那样有动感。你知道,有时候你应该去玩,有时候你又不得不克制自己。这是一个非常有活力的工具。

Ballet is completely unnatural to the body, just being turned-out... it's not the way your body is supposed to function, so you actually train your body to be a different structure than you were born with.

芭蕾舞对身体来说是完全不自然的,只是被翻出来……这不是你的身体应该运作的方式,所以你实际上训练你的身体成为一个不同于你与生俱来的结构。

I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.

我总是在短时间内观察人们,把他们置于一个极端的位置。有时候你看不到一个人的人性,因为时间太短,环境太极端。

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

现实政治的全部目的是通过无穷无尽的妖怪(全都是虚构的)威胁民众,让他们保持警惕(因此,他们大声疾呼,希望被带到安全的地方)。