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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One time I went into a restroom and a girl followed me in. I signed an autograph for her in the sink. It was pretty funny because she was in a guy's restroom and she wasn't embarrassed at all.

有一次我去洗手间,一个女孩跟着我进去。我在水池里给她签了名。这很有趣,因为她在一个男人的洗手间,她一点也不尴尬。

If aliens did visit us, I'd be embarrassed to tell them we still dig fossil fuels from the ground as a source of energy.

如果外星人真的来拜访我们,我会很尴尬地告诉他们,我们仍然从地下挖掘化石燃料作为能源。

Risk isn't a word in my vocabulary. It's my very existence.

我的字典里没有风险这个词。这就是我的存在。

Tired is not a word in my vocabulary.

我的字典里没有“累”这个词。