City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

  • -- Edward Hoagland 爱德华·霍格兰

城市人总是尽可能地争取时间,而农村人则准备消磨时间,尽管他们都努力在心里珍视未来美好生活的概念。

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As with all forms of liberation, of which the liberation of women is only one example, it is easy to suppose in a time of freedom that the darker days of repression can never come again.

同所有形式的解放一样(妇女解放只是其中的一个例子),很容易设想在自由的时代,压迫的黑暗日子再也不会来临。

People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet.

人们总是在寻找能彻底改变一切的灵丹妙药。没有单一的灵丹妙药。

People will feel safer around you and speak truthfully to you when they feel you are listening intently to them.

人们会觉得和你在一起更安全,当他们觉得你在专心听他们说话时,他们会对你说实话。

Do you ever think if people heard our conversations they'd lock us up? All the time.

你有没有想过如果人们听到我们的谈话,他们会把我们关起来? 所有的时间。