The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.

  • -- Robert Louis Stevenson 罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森

那么,网络,或者图案,一个既感性又有逻辑性的网络,一个优雅而富有内涵的结构:那就是风格,那是文学艺术的基础。

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The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.

在过去的四五百年里,欧洲人与非洲的接触产生了大量的文学作品,这些作品把非洲描述得非常糟糕,用非常耸人听闻的语言描述非洲人。其原因与为奴隶贸易和奴隶制辩护的需要有关。

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

文学为现实添彩,而不是简单地描述现实。它丰富了日常生活所需和提供的必要能力;在这方面,它灌溉着我们的生活已经变成沙漠的土地。

Whatever it takes to get the image to reach that level is what that photographer needs to do. And for me, I just have such a love of the tactile and sensuous quality of a black and white silver gelatin print.

为了让图像达到那个水平,摄影师需要做的就是竭尽全力。对我来说,我对黑白明胶印刷的触感和感官品质非常喜爱。

You know, I find people with great honesty, bodily, physical honesty, who sit just the way they like to sit, and walk the way they like to walk, and don't come into a room all pumped up, I find them elegant.

你知道,我发现人们非常诚实,身体上,身体上都诚实,他们坐着的方式就是他们喜欢坐的方式,走着他们喜欢走的方式,而不是走进一个充满活力的房间,我发现他们很优雅。

A palindrome is a word or pattern that instead of developing in different directions it folds in on itself so that the beginning and end mirror each other, that they are the same.

回文是一个单词或图案,它不是向不同的方向发展,而是向内折叠,使开始和结束相互镜像,它们是相同的。

No, she did not have a history of twins, and we had discussed all of this before she got pregnant. What if all three, what if two eggs, what if one - you discuss every scenario.

不,她没有双胞胎的病史,我们在她怀孕前已经讨论过这些了。如果三个都有,如果两个鸡蛋,如果一个鸡蛋,你讨论每一种情况。

To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.

用已知解释未知是一个合乎逻辑的过程;用未知解释已知是一种神学上的疯狂。

Having hit a wall, the next logical step is not to bang our heads against it.

碰壁后,下一步合乎逻辑的做法是不要用头撞墙。

You must understand the texture of your hair before you choose a style.

在选择发型之前,你必须了解头发的质地。

The important thing is the diversity available on the Web.

重要的是网络的多样性。

If all else fails, there's always print or web zines.

如果所有这些都失败了,总会有印刷版或网络版杂志。

To understand is to perceive patterns.

理解就是感知模式。

I wish I could be elegant.

我希望我能优雅。