I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to us like we were grown men. We never knew what he was talking about half the time.

  • -- Wynton Marsalis 温顿马萨利斯

我总是读所有这些关于奴隶的书。我母亲受过良好的教育。我父亲会像我们成年人一样跟我们说话。有一半时间我们根本不知道他在说什么。

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They say the death of a parent puts you in time because that means there's now no generation standing between you and ordinary death: you're next. I don't buy it.

他们说父母的去世会让你及时离开人世,因为这意味着你和普通人的死亡之间没有代沟:你是下一个。我不相信。

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

未受过教育的人只感知个体现象,受过部分教育的人是规则,受过教育的人是例外。

I've been on the tour for many, many years. It's time for me to go now, before it's too late.

我已经巡演很多年了。我该走了,趁还来得及。

I study to learn, to be an educated person.

我学习是为了学习,为了成为一个受过教育的人。