When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so.

  • -- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 利希滕贝格

当一个熟人经过我身边时,我常常从窗口退后一步,与其说是为了让他不费力地向我打招呼,还不如说是为了不让自己尴尬地看到他并没有这样做。

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One of the most frightening things about your true nerd, for may people, is not that he's socially inept - because everybody's been there - but rather his complete lack of embarrassment about it.

对很多人来说,你真正的书呆子最可怕的一点不是他不善交际——因为每个人都有这种经历——而是他完全不觉得尴尬。

Again, I find it difficult to be taken care of and rarely acknowledge it, and every act he does registers, but I also just need to verbally acknowledge him and hug him.

同样,我发现很难被照顾,也很少承认这一点,他做的每一个动作都会引起我的注意,但我也只需要口头上承认他,并拥抱他。

I didn't hang any pictures in my office for a year because I thought that I would be jinxing myself and have to take them down the next day.

我有一年没有在办公室里挂任何照片了,因为我想我要倒霉了,明天就得把它们取下来。

Every person seems to acknowledge his greatness. He blends together the profound politician with the scholar.

每个人似乎都承认自己的伟大。他把渊博的政治家和学者融为一体。

I think of myself as a realistic writer, not a creator of soap opera or melodrama.

我认为自己是一个现实主义作家,而不是肥皂剧或情节剧的创作者。

To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.

令我尴尬的是,我出生在一位女士的床上。