Country people do not behave as if they think life is short; they live on the principle that it is long, and savor variations of the kind best appreciated if most days are the same.

  • -- Edward Hoagland 爱德华·霍格兰

乡下人并不表现得好像他们认为生命是短暂的;他们的生活原则是时间很长,如果大多数日子都是一样的,他们就会尽情享受各种各样的变化。

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People tend to think of Brisbane as a sleepy, sub-topical place. I don't know. It's like Baltimore or something. I don't know. You would hear the family dramas going on behind closed doors.

人们往往认为布里斯班是一个令人昏昏欲睡的地方。我不知道。就像巴尔的摩之类的地方。我不知道。你会听到家庭闹剧在幕后上演。

I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity.

我希望人们被吸引到作品的空间中。很多人和我一样,注意力持续时间相对较短。所以我向机会之窗射击。

Geologists are rapidly becoming convinced that the mammals spread from their central Asian point of origin largely because of great variations in climate.

地质学家们正迅速确信,哺乳动物之所以从它们的中亚起源地繁衍开来,很大程度上是因为气候的巨大变化。

You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.

你一定不要忘记,怪物只是一个变种,而对怪物来说,标准是可怕的。