You know, you can be really quite subversive in popular fiction, which is capable of taking on big issues of politics, war, the rise and fall of commercial dynasties.

  • -- Robert Harris 罗伯特·哈里斯

你知道,在通俗小说中你真的可以很具有颠覆性,通俗小说可以涉及政治、战争、商业王朝的兴衰等重大问题。

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As technology improves, on-screen avatars look more and more like real people. When they start looking too real, though, we pull away. These almost-humans aren't quite right; they look creepy, like zombies.

随着科技的进步,屏幕上的化身越来越像真人。但当它们开始变得太真实时,我们就会抽离。这些近乎人类的观点并不完全正确;他们看起来很恐怖,就像僵尸一样。

I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence.

我很无聊,在酒吧里服务。因为我在那儿,顾客们都不愿谈论女人,她们有一半的话题都不谈女人,那就是:马,沉默;马,沉默。

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

人往往能做比他们所做的更伟大的事情——他们被送到这个世界上的时候,身上带着信用的票据,却很少能充分发挥。

At some point, the time will have passed when individuals are capable of major discoveries.

在某一时刻,当个体有能力进行重大发现时,时间就会过去。