You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.

  • -- Irwin Shaw 欧文·肖

你必须避免把财富当人质,比如娶一个昂贵的妻子、一栋昂贵的房子,以及一种永远不会让你有时间去写你想写什么的生活方式。

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First of all, when I was making the decision, I never thought that Pittsburgh fans would want me back. Every time I played there, they were booing me every time I touched the puck. I didn't think it would be such a big deal that I didn't sign with Pittsburgh.

首先,当我做这个决定的时候,我从来没有想过匹兹堡的球迷会希望我回来。每次我在那里踢球,他们都对我嘘声一片。我没想到我没有和匹兹堡签约会有这么大的影响。

A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.

丈夫屈服于妻子的枷锁,理所当然地会成为人们嘲笑的对象。女人的影响应该完全隐藏起来。

If we had had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

如果我们有更多的时间来讨论,我们可能会犯更多的错误。

Sitting around the house playing the wife and mother is driving me crazy.

坐在家里扮演妻子和母亲的角色快把我逼疯了。