My boarding school experience was the only thing I had strong enough feelings to write about for hundreds and hundreds of pages. I can still smell the formaldehyde of the fetal pigs in biology.

  • -- Curtis Sittenfeld 科蒂斯·希登费尔德

我的寄宿学校经历是我唯一有足够强烈的感情去写成百上千页的东西。我在生物课上还能闻到胎儿猪的甲醛味。

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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

我们能经历的最美好的事情就是神秘。它是所有真正艺术和科学的源泉。如果一个人对这种情感是陌生的,他再也不能停下来思考,再也不能全神贯注地敬畏地站着,那他就等于死了:他的眼睛是闭着的。

However, I had a chance encounter with an admissions officer of Stevens Institute of Technology, who so impressed me by his erudition and enthusiasm for the school that I changed course and entered Stevens Institute.

然而,我偶然遇到了史蒂文斯理工学院的招生官,他的博学和对学校的热情给我留下了深刻的印象,于是我改变了课程,进入了史蒂文斯理工学院。

I hate when my feelings for someone, cause me more heartache than happiness.

我讨厌当我对某人的感情,使我心痛多于快乐。

Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.

感情就像化学物质,你分析得越多,它们的气味就越难闻。