People are constantly asking Portia and me if we are going to have children. We thought about it. We love to be around children after they've been fed and bathed. But we ultimately decided that we don't want children of our own. There is far too much glass in our house.

  • -- Ellen DeGeneres 艾伦·德杰尼尔斯

人们总是问我和波西亚我们是不是要生孩子。我们想过了。我们喜欢在孩子们吃过饭、洗过澡之后和他们在一起。但我们最终决定不要我们自己的孩子。我们家的玻璃太多了。

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The truth is, everything ultimately comes down to the relationship between the reader and the writer and the characters. Does or does not a character address moral being in a universal and important way? If it does, then it's literature.

事实上,一切最终都归结于读者、作者和角色之间的关系。一个角色是否以一种普遍而重要的方式处理道德存在?如果是,那就是文学。

The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.

房子必须让每个人都满意,而艺术作品则不然。这件作品是艺术家的私事。房子不是。

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

懒惰是通往死亡的捷径,勤奋是一种生活方式;愚蠢的人懒惰,聪明的人勤奋。

The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.

发明家对他的发明的权利不是垄断——从任何意义上说,就像一个人的房子是垄断一样。

People were really interested in what was going on because of the international context of the Cold War.

由于冷战的国际背景,人们对正在发生的事情非常感兴趣。

If 'everything happens for a reason,' then every act of evil is ultimately God's doing.

如果“每件事的发生都是有原因的”,那么每一件坏事最终都是上帝做的。

I felt alienated by the experience and decided to stay away from corporate employment.

这段经历让我感到疏离,于是我决定远离公司工作。

I decided I wanted to be a physician when I was seven years old.

当我七岁的时候,我决定要成为一名医生。