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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A lot of people like to do certain things, but they're not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.

很多人喜欢做某些事情,但他们并不擅长。继续做你喜欢做的事情,直到你发现你真正擅长的事情。它可以是任何东西。

Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess.

我想我的计划是写诗,出版书,以写诗为生。我想这是一个雄心勃勃的计划。

The tolling bell Measures time not our time, rung by the unhurried Ground swell, a time Older than the time of chronometers.

报时的钟声不是测量我们的时间,而是由从容不迫的地面鼓起的,比计时器的时间还要古老的时间。

I didn't have time for talent shows and stuff like that. I was into books and studying real hard.

我没有时间参加才艺表演之类的。我喜欢读书,学习非常努力。

I guess I don't have a proper perspective on my fame; if I did, I don't think I'd like it.

我想我对我的名声没有一个正确的看法;如果我这么做了,我想我不会喜欢的。

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

我想与其说我介意变老,不如说我介意变胖变老。

Good novel are written by people who are not frightened.

好的小说是由不害怕的人写的。

I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.

我被称为很多东西,但从来没有一个知识分子。