You see failed vocabulary in the adult world so often, and it's often because once you reach a certain age you're kind of embarrassed to go look up a word if you don't know what it means.

  • -- Daniel Handler 丹尼尔·汉德勒

在成年人的世界里,你经常会看到失败的词汇,这通常是因为一旦你到了一定的年龄,如果你不知道一个单词的意思,你就会有点不好意思去查它。

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When you have kids, you just love them. It's similar to when you're in love with someone. You just think they are so cool and want to be around them all the time, but what if she starts being embarrassed and only giving me charity visits? I want her to actually want to see me, so that's what I'm going for!

当你有了孩子,你就爱他们。就像你爱上某人一样。你只是觉得他们很酷,想一直和他们在一起,但如果她开始感到尴尬,只给我做慈善访问怎么办?我想让她真的想见我,所以这就是我要做的!

For some reason, I just lack that ability to be embarrassed about going up to people. I even do it for friends if they want to ask someone out.

出于某种原因,我就是没有那种能力因为要去见人而感到尴尬。如果朋友们想约某人出去,我甚至会为他们这样做。

In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary.

事实上,英语中的雄辩将不可避免地使用我们词汇中的拉丁元素。

According to my wife, my use of vocabulary is wide and varied.

据我妻子说,我的词汇使用广泛而多样。