There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that.

  • -- Robert Benchley 本奇利

在这本书的前面有一个说明,说没有得到作者的许可,公众不得阅读。这件事应该做得比这困难得多。

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Our enemies can deal a blow to us any time they wish. They did not wait for permission to do this. They do not deal a blow with prior notice. They do not take action because they can't.

我们的敌人可以随时对我们进行打击。他们没有等到允许才这样做。他们不处理事先通知的打击。他们不采取行动是因为他们不能。

Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.

由于预计大多数诗歌都比带着沉重的行李通过奥黑尔机场还要糟糕,公众对诗歌的了解少之又少。

One sheds ones sickness in books- repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.

一个人在书中摆脱疾病——重复并再次呈现自己的情感,以便控制它们。

Being a public person doesn't necessarily mean you're a piece of meat for everybody.

作为一个公众人物并不意味着你对每个人都是一块肉。

The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well.

生病的艺术和康复的艺术是不一样的。

It is better to ask for an apology than to ask for permission.

请求道歉总比请求允许好。

I never thought about getting any tattoos removed.

我从没想过要把纹身去掉。

A book is not completed till it's read.

书不读不完。