All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times.

  • -- John Woolman 约翰·伍尔曼

在这段时间里,我一直和父母住在一起,在种植园里干活。作为一名种植园主,我接受了良好的教育,过去我常常在冬夜和其他闲暇时间提高自己。

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Almost all of your life is lived by the seat of your pants, one unexpected event crashing into another, with no pattern or reason, and then you finally reach a point, around my age, where you spend more time than ever looking back. Why did this happen? Look where that led? You see the shape of things.

你几乎所有的生活都是凭感觉度过的,一件意想不到的事撞到另一件事,没有规律,也没有原因,然后你终于到了一个点,在我这个年纪,你花了比以往任何时候都多的时间来回顾。为什么会这样?看看这是怎么回事?你看到事物的形状。

Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.

写下你所知道的。那样你就会有很多空闲时间。