A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.

  • -- Augustine Birrell 比勒尔

传统的好书通常是一本坏书,是我们已知的一个放松的沐浴。真正的好书无疑是一种创新的创造行为,在其中,我们,读者,成为同谋者。

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How do you build a relationship when you've hardly shared a word but suddenly share a child? How do you love a daughter you don't see for nearly two years? When does she become your daughter? How does she become your daughter?

当你几乎没有说过一句话,却突然有了一个孩子,你该如何建立一种关系呢?你如何爱一个两年没见面的女儿?她什么时候成为你的女儿?她是怎么变成你女儿的?

You can be too rich and too thin, but you can never be too well read or too curious about the world.

你可以太有钱,也可以太瘦,但你永远不可能读得太好或对世界太好奇。

I'm not saying my wife's a bad cook, but she uses a smoke alarm as a timer.

我并不是说我妻子厨艺很差,但是她用烟雾报警器来计时。

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.

做一个人自己的傻瓜已经够糟了,但是虚荣的人却是每个人的。

As soon as you become complacent your show gets canceled.

一旦你变得自满,你的节目就会被取消。

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

机智毕竟是一种读心术。