My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.

  • -- Ian Hislop 伊恩·希斯洛普

我的母亲是我生命中的一股强大的力量。战争年代的女人,没有上大学,但应该上大学。非常有趣,非常健谈,非常聪明,非常机智。

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I had a mother I could only seem to please with verbal accomplishments of some sort or another. She read constantly, so I read constantly. If I used words that might have seemed surprising at a young age, she would recognize that and it would please her.

我有一个母亲,我似乎只能用某种或另一种语言上的成就来取悦她。她经常读书,所以我也经常读书。如果我在她年轻的时候使用一些可能会让她感到惊讶的话,她会认识到这一点,并且会感到高兴。

But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.

但是,在专为背诵而作的诗歌中,最大的困难,也许也是最重要的困难,是难以达到语言之美,或者更确切地说,难以使语言之美表达出来。

The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in.

独立影评的文化已经完全荒废了,这似乎是伴随着我们现在所处的消费时代而来的。

There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.

总有某个特定的时刻,我们会意识到自己的青春已经逝去;但是,多年以后,我们知道那是很久以后的事了。