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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When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?

当你做了错事,明知是错的时候,你就是环境的产物。因此,选择最能让你朝着目标前进的环境。从环境的角度分析你的生活。你周围的事物是帮助你走向成功,还是阻碍你走向成功?

You look at the whole Human Rights questions, I happened to be there at just the right time when the country was awakening - this goes to the first question you asked - the whole country was awakening to a hundred years of injustice that hadn't been resolved yet.

你看整个人权问题,我恰好在这个国家刚刚觉醒的时候在那里——这是你问的第一个问题——整个国家正在觉醒,意识到一百年来的不公正还没有得到解决。

No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.

没有人写任何值得写的东西,除非他完全是为了他的主题而写。

If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.

如果你不害怕内心的声音,你就不会害怕外界的批评。

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

障碍是当你的眼睛离开你的目标时所看到的可怕的东西。

I guess I don't like the people in politics very much, to be blunt.

坦率地说,我想我不太喜欢政界人士。

I'm see-through. And I'm the worst liar of all time.

我是透明的。而我是有史以来最差劲的说谎者。

Well, my favorite color I guess I would say yellow.

我最喜欢的颜色是黄色。