One of the most frightening things about your true nerd, for may people, is not that he's socially inept - because everybody's been there - but rather his complete lack of embarrassment about it.

  • -- Neal Stephenson 尼尔·斯蒂芬森

对很多人来说,你真正的书呆子最可怕的一点不是他不善交际——因为每个人都有这种经历——而是他完全不觉得尴尬。

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In high school, I had to hide my comic book side, my nerd side from the civilian world so they wouldn't categorize me. They would try to marginalize me for what I like. I tried to give it up, believe me. I tried to kick the habit. But there's too much I liked about it to give it up completely.

在高中的时候,我不得不隐藏我漫画书的一面,我的书呆子的一面,这样他们就不会把我归类了。他们会因为我喜欢什么而排斥我。我试着放弃,相信我。我试着戒掉这个习惯。但我太喜欢它了,不能完全放弃。

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

但是,那种彼此感到尴尬的亲密关系,即双方都感到对方有某种感觉,而这种感觉一旦存在,其影响是无法消除的。

To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.

令我尴尬的是,我出生在一位女士的床上。

A nerd will be a nerd all his life.

一个书呆子终其一生都会是个书呆子。