I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it.

  • -- Vladimir Nabokov 弗拉基米尔·纳博科夫

我常常注意到,当我赋予小说中的人物一些珍贵的往事之后,它就会在我突然赋予它的那个人造的世界里枯萎。

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Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

书籍构成的资本。图书馆里的书可以和房子一样长,可以保存几百年。因此,它不仅是一种消费工具,而且是一种相当可观的资本,而且就职业人士而言,它往往是他们人生中唯一的资本。

The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations.

世界各国领导人未能在全球变暖这一关键问题上采取行动,往往被归咎于经济方面的考虑。

Love is when a man wipe your tears even after you left him hanging on the cross with your sins.

爱是即使你把他和你的罪一起挂在十字架上,他仍然为你擦去眼泪。

Looking after my health today gives me a better hope for tomorrow.

照顾好我今天的健康给了我对明天更好的希望。