They meant abnormal. Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood.

  • -- Janet Frame 珍妮特·弗雷姆

他们指的是不正常的。这种分裂在当时很流行,人们很容易认为帮助既不能被接受,也不能被理解,从而抑制自己对帮助的需要。

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Some things can be perfectly expressed by sound alone and images would only be disturbing. Other times, sound would be possible, but visuals are much stronger and closer to what I want to express and then again, they sometimes overlap perfectly.

有些东西可以只用声音完美地表达出来,而图像只会令人不安。其他时候,声音是可能的,但是视觉效果更强,更接近我想要表达的东西,而且它们有时会完美地重叠。

I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible, because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal always hides itself behind the normal.

我喜欢把这些不寻常的人物塑造得尽可能的正常,因为我们都知道悲剧和不正常总是隐藏在正常的背后。

Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, hath yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time.

阁下,虽然还没有完全过了您的青年时代,但您的内心已经有些老了的味道,有些对时间的咸味的享受了。

Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves.

孩子和不正常的成年人需要监护人,因为他们不能为自己做出负责任的选择。