Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything.

  • -- Raymond Queneau 雷蒙·格诺

许多小说家把定义明确、精确的人物置于重要的历史背景中,而不管发生什么事,历史背景都是次要的。

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You have to think an awful lot about your motivations or people's behavioral intentions or what their body language can indicate or what's really going on or what makes people sometimes do, sometimes, the irrational things they do.

你必须考虑很多关于你的动机或者人们的行为意图或者他们的肢体语言能暗示什么或者到底发生了什么或者是什么让人们有时做一些不理性的事情。

The important thing is this Just because I'm doing well doesn't mean that they're going to do well if they get HIV. A lot of people have died since I have announced. This disease is not going anywhere.

重要的是,仅仅因为我做得好并不意味着如果他们感染了艾滋病毒他们也会做得好。自从我宣布以来,已经有很多人死了。这种病哪儿也去不了。

I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.

我不会假装从精确的问题开始。我认为你不能从任何精确的东西开始。你必须达到你所能达到的精确度。

Well, you know, we've got a lot of stimulus in the economy already from the tax cut, from the lowered interest rates, and also from the refinancing of mortgages.

嗯,你知道,我们已经通过减税、降低利率以及抵押贷款的再融资为经济提供了很多刺激。

Most of my playing style is very on point - the tapping, just by nature of being rhythmic, is tight - so I'd like to explore something looser and less precise.

我的大部分演奏风格都很到位——轻拍,由于有节奏的天性,是紧绷的——所以我想探索一些更松散和不那么精确的东西。

I sometimes lie, especially about personal things, because what does it matter? I am a kind of minute commodity, my name is no longer my own.

我有时会说谎,尤其是关于个人的事情,因为这有什么关系?我是一种微小的商品,我的名字不再是我自己的。

I treat any scene the same - dialogue, action - you're still creating something in character. It's all acting, fighting.

我对待任何场景都是一样的——对话,动作——你仍然在创造一些角色。都是演戏,打架。

French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well.

法语和德语也同样说明了明显的语法简单性所具有的误导性。

But I felt that most of us in the world today gave priority to our personal interests.

但我觉得今天世界上大多数人都把个人利益放在首位。

Grief wraps around people, takes them to a place they would not go otherwise.

悲伤包围着人们,带他们去一个他们不会去的地方。

Our reputation is more important than the last hundred million dollars.

我们的声誉比过去的一亿美元更重要。

There was a lot more music than the size of the place would indicate.

这里的音乐比这个地方的大小所能显示的要多得多。