Anybody can be very destructive in that position without at all meaning to be, and I know that I have been inadvertently destructive in the past for certain people on certain occasions.

  • -- Tobias Wolff 托比亚斯·沃尔夫

任何人在那种情况下都可能是非常具有破坏性的,而根本没有任何故意这样做的意思。我知道,我过去在某些特定的场合无意中对某些人具有破坏性。

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But you say you are conservative - eminently conservative - while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?

但你说你是保守的——非常保守——而我们是革命性的、破坏性的,或诸如此类的东西。保守主义是什么?它不是坚持旧的和尝试过的,反对新的和未经尝试的吗?

I was born to argue... I don't know why. I mean, from arguing with my teachers and, on occasions, my parents. I think I've mastered the art of argument at a fairly young age.

我生来就爱争论……我不知道为什么。我的意思是,从和我的老师,有时和我的父母争吵。我想我在很小的时候就掌握了辩论的艺术。