I always used to deny this, but I guess what I'm really saying is that I was writing to shock... And I dug deep and dredged up all kinds of vile things which fascinated me at the time.

  • -- Ian McEwan 伊恩·麦克尤恩

我总是否认这一点,但我想我真正想说的是,我写作是为了震惊……我挖得很深,把当时使我着迷的各种丑恶的东西都挖了出来。

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I liked to act in plays when I was a kid, and then in college. But that's the last time I really acted. I always loved it. But my interests were more in looking at the whole, rather than getting completely swallowed up in a single part of the whole.

我小时候喜欢演戏,后来上了大学。但那是我最后一次演戏。我一直很喜欢。但我的兴趣更多的是着眼于整体,而不是被整体的某一部分完全吞没。

Every country we conquer feeds us. And these are just a few of the good things we'll have when this war is over. Slaves working for us everywhere while we sit back with a fork in our hands and a whip on our knees.

我们征服的每一个国家都养活了我们。这些只是战争结束后我们会拥有的一些美好事物。奴隶们到处为我们干活,而我们却坐着,手里拿着叉子,膝盖上放着鞭子。

The sign said don’t do it, so naturally I did it. Signs are always saying stuff in a silent way.
 Writing is a way to say something in a silent way.

牌子上写着不要这样做,所以我很自然地就这样做了。标识总是用一种无声的方式来表达。
写作是一种沉默的方式。

I guess I hit a point while I was in college when I realized I would have to do something with my life!

我想当我在大学的时候,我意识到我必须为我的生活做点什么。

In a way I guess I'd be a bad judge of what it was like because it just seemed perfectly normal to me.

在某种程度上,我想我不会很好地判断它是什么样的,因为对我来说,它似乎是完全正常的。

I just wondered how things were put together.

我只是想知道事情是怎么组合起来的。

I spent a lot of time between bars like this.

我经常在酒吧之间这样度过。

I never listen to music when I'm writing.

我写作时从不听音乐。