A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.

  • -- Joseph Addison 约瑟夫·艾迪生

一个真正的评论家应该专注于优点而不是缺点,去发现一个作家隐藏的美,并向世界传达那些值得他们观察的东西。

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The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it's to go from understanding the content of something to really learning how to communicate it and make sure it's well-received and lives in somebody else.

音乐家的角色是从概念到全面执行。换句话说,就是要从理解某件事的内容,到真正学会如何与之沟通,并确保它被广泛接受,活在别人身上。

In the end, they pardoned me and packed me off to a home for the shell-shocked. Shortly before the end of the war, I was discharged a second time, once again with the observation that I was subject to recall at any time.

最后,他们原谅了我,把我送到了一个患有炮弹休克症的家庭。就在战争结束前不久,我第二次被释放了,再次被释放的原因是我随时都可能回忆起当时的观察结果。

The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living.

穷人互相残杀,因为他们的生活没有希望,并向这些人传达了一个悲惨的信息,即他们没有可能获得体面的生活水平。

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.

挑战让你发现自己从未真正了解的东西。是它们让乐器变得有弹性,让你超越常规。

Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers.

虽然高山可以引导迁徙,但平原是人类居住最多的地区。

There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife.

批评是有一定道理的。批评家就像一个助产士——一个专横的助产士。

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

艺术是从显而易见和众所周知的走向神秘和隐蔽的一步。

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

在你发现生活是一个自己动手的项目之前,你已经花了半辈子的时间。

A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.

没有观察的旅行者就像没有翅膀的鸟。

I believe in criticism.

我相信批评。