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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I shall confess at the outset that it was only shortly after the beginning of this century that I entered active life - with a somewhat precocious capacity for involvement.

我将在开始时承认,我只是在本世纪初不久才进入积极的生活- -具有某种早熟的参与能力。

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.

记者对世界的不幸幸灾乐祸。正因为如此,他们常常在令其他人类失望的事件中获得一种不体面的快乐。

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.

人们常说,在你死之前,你的生命在你眼前逝去。事实上这是真的。它叫做生活。

If you were happy before you knew someone, you can be happy after they're gone.

如果你在认识一个人之前很快乐,那么在他们离开后你也会很快乐。