Some people are like wheelbarrows; useful only when pushed, and very easily upset. The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.

  • -- Henry S. Haskins 亨利·S·哈斯金斯

有些人就像手推车;只有在被推的时候才有用,而且很容易心烦意乱。当对方肯定地点点头,但什么也没说时,就是停止说话的时候。

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I suspect that writer's block afflicts mainly people who have some stable and ample source of income outside of writing. So far it hasn't been a problem.

我怀疑,文思枯竭主要折磨的是那些在写作之外有稳定而充足收入来源的人。到目前为止还没有出现问题。

People are starting to go on about my weight but I'm not going to change my size because they don't like the way I look.

人们开始抱怨我的体重,但我不会改变我的尺寸,因为他们不喜欢我的样子。

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

然而,在时间的教导下,我的心学会了为他人的幸福而发光,为他人的不幸而融化。

The time was out of joint, and he was only too delighted to have been born to set it right.

时间不协调了,他生下来就能把它安排好,真是太高兴了。