And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay.

  • -- George Washington Cable 乔治·华盛顿·凯布林

到了下午,他们进入了一片土地——但是这片土地!一片笼罩在哀悼之中的土地,被巨大的柏树遮蔽,淹没了;爬行动物的土地,寂静,阴影,腐朽。

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It was a huge shock. I've never had hair that short in my life! I think the rest of the cast and crew were mourning my haircut more than I was! But after a while, I felt liberated, I learned to embrace it.

这是一个巨大的冲击。我从来没有这么短的头发!我想其他的演员和工作人员比我更哀悼我的发型!但过了一段时间,我感到解放了,我学会了拥抱它。

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

一切讽刺都无视于腐朽解放出来的力量。这就是为什么完全的腐朽吸收了讽刺的力量。

I get inhabited by a character and then you mourn it. There's a period of mourning for me, definitely.

我被一个角色吸引住了,然后你为之哀悼。我肯定会有一段哀悼的时间。

You're like the girl who left her shadow in the drawer, but when she went to get it, it wasn't there.

你就像那个把影子留在抽屉里的女孩,但当她去拿的时候,影子却不见了。

Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not.

每个人都是在托尔斯泰的阴影下写作的,不管你是否觉得自己是托尔斯泰主义者。

I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.

当每个人都退休以后,我能在夜晚的寂静和孤独中写得最好。

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

中年是无邪的青春,老年是无朽的老年。

Lying is done with words and also with silence.

说谎既要用言语,也要用沉默。