I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre.

  • -- Lynn Abbey 李恩·阿贝

我有一些传统科幻小说的想法,但我从来没有卖出去。我是一个著名的幻想作家,我的经纪人和编辑都不愿意冒险让我的品牌改换风格。

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My mother bought me a brand new suit for going away to college. We were poor, but she wanted me to have that. It was a powder blue suit with peg pants - you know, skinny at the bottom. I think I made quite an impression with that.

我妈妈给我买了一套全新的衣服准备去上大学。我们很穷,但她想让我拥有它。那是一套粉蓝色的西装,下摆是紧身裤。我想这给我留下了深刻的印象。

Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

幸福就像一只猫,如果你试图哄它或叫它,它会避开你;它永远不会来。但如果你不注意它,继续你的工作,你会发现它摩擦你的腿,跳到你的膝盖上。

It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary. That that we were born and that we face eternal extinction after death is an extraordinary fantasy.

人们对真实事物的幻想是如此不同寻常。我们生下来,死后面临永恒的灭绝,这是一种不同寻常的幻想。

Let him who would reach another a brand, beware that he do not burn his own hand.

凡想要刺别人的,不可伤自己的手。

I suppose some editors are failed writers - but so are most writers.

我想有些编辑是失败的作家——但大多数作家也是。

I don't like bungee jumping, but I do like skiing.

我不喜欢蹦极,但我喜欢滑雪。

Before I fix the world, I have to fix myself.

在我改变世界之前,我必须先改变我自己。