You know that feeling when you finish a final exam and you think, 'I never want to do that again'? Well I have the same feeling when I finish a novel. Each time I say, 'I think I may retire now' and then after six months the ideas start to churn again. I could never stop.

  • -- Wilbur Smith 威尔伯·史密斯

你知道那种感觉吗?当你期末考试结束时,你想,‘我再也不想做那样的事了’?当我读完一本小说时,我也有同样的感觉。每次我说“我想我现在可以退休了”,六个月后,我的想法又开始翻腾起来。我停不下来。

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There are things we can all do to help, including carpooling and traveling only when necessary, in order to save gas during this time. However, there is also something more important which we can all do: buy only the gas which you need.

为了节省汽油,我们都可以做一些事情来帮助他们,包括拼车和只有在必要的时候才去旅行。然而,还有一件更重要的事我们都可以做:只买你需要的汽油。

Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.

有些人担心人工智能会让我们感到自卑,但是,任何一个头脑正常的人每次看到一朵花都应该有一种自卑情结。

After that, I came back every year. Everyone said, 'Well, when you retire you can move there.' But I said, 'Why should I live my whole life where I don't want to be.'

从那以后,我每年都回来。每个人都说,‘好吧,等你退休了,你可以搬到那里去。但我说,“我为什么要一辈子生活在我不想去的地方呢?”

It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway.

把你的妻子放进小说里不是个好主意;反正不是你最近的妻子。

Before deciding to retire, stay home for a week and watch the daytime TV shows.

在决定退休之前,在家呆上一周,看看白天的电视节目。

Today I began the novel that I determined to be great.

今天我开始了我决心要成为伟大的小说。