It's the word 'artful'; it's such a great word, with its dark and its light side, its art and its cunning, the craft and the crafty of it - I've been preoccupied with the word 'artful' and the twin notions of 'cornucopia' and 'pickpocket' it suggests for quite some time.

  • -- Ali Smith 阿莉·史密斯

它是“巧妙的”这个词;这个词太棒了,有它黑暗的一面,也有它光明的一面,有它艺术的一面,也有它狡诈的一面,有它的技巧,也有它的狡诈——我一直专注于“巧”这个词,以及它所暗示的“聚宝盆”和“扒手”这两个概念。

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I always think it's important to choose your initial theme very carefully because you're going to be married to it for a long time. You might have to generate an hour's worth of music from a very short, little piece of theme.

我一直认为,非常仔细地选择你最初的主题是很重要的,因为你要和它结合很长一段时间。你可能不得不从一个非常短的主题片段中产生一个小时的音乐。

It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.

即使是最狡猾的伪装,也无法在真爱存在的地方长时间地隐藏它,也无法在它不存在的地方长时间地假装它。

Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.

嫉妒像虫子一样,只会爬向最美丽的果实;就像一只狡猾的侦探犬,它把羊群中最肥的鹿挑出来。

My England captaincy was not the England captaincy I wanted, that's what will live with me for a long time.

我的英格兰队长不是我想要的那个英格兰队长,这将会伴随我很长一段时间。

If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.

如果美不是天才,它通常至少表明了动物的高度狡猾。