One gains a double benefit in writing about the past, conjuring up how things might have been, and at the same time acquiring a different perspective on the present.

  • -- Robert Harris 罗伯特·哈里斯

一个人在写过去的时候得到了双重好处,想象事情可能是怎样的,同时对现在有了不同的看法。

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The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire.

我不断回顾,重读的东西,也许它们更多的是关于我作为一个读者而不是书。爱情在霍乱的时候,苍白的火。

The cost of acquiring new customers and maintaining those relationships in an online environment versus bricks and mortar is significant.

与实体店相比,在在线环境中获取新客户并维护这些关系的成本是非常可观的。

To my daughter Leonora without whose never-failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been finished in half the time.

感谢我的女儿莱奥诺拉,如果没有她永远的同情和鼓励,这本书就能在一半的时间内完成。

I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.

我认为把教育定义为获取知识是完全错误的,是非常有害的。

Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.

力量可以征服,但爱会获得,最先宽恕的人会赢得桂冠。

He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.

把有用的和愉快的结合起来的人会得到每个人的赞同。