Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.

  • -- George Lucas 乔治·卢卡斯

甚至在高中我就对历史很感兴趣——为什么人们会做他们所做的事情。当我还是个孩子的时候,我花了很多时间试图把过去和现在联系起来。

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I wasn't really geeky. In terms of the high school hierarchy, I was very much in the middle ground. You have the really popular guys, you have the nerdy guys, and then you have the people who really don't care - and that was me. I wasn't really picked on or anything like that.

我并不是很怪。在高中的等级制度方面,我是非常中立的。有些人很受欢迎,有些人很书呆子气,还有一些人根本不在乎——那就是我。我并不是真的被挑出来的。

It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.

说没有人会吹嘘自己对文学的无知几乎已经成了陈词滥调,但吹嘘自己对科学的无知、自豪地宣称自己在数学方面的无能是可以被社会接受的。

I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and recreates the experience of people at that time.

我只是写我喜欢读的那种书,一本既学术性又再现了当时人们经历的书。

What anybody else thinks about you is really of no consequence. It's what you think of yourself.

别人对你的看法真的无关紧要。这是你对自己的看法。

You don't have to get it right the first time.

你不必一开始就做对。

I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.

我既有传统的一面,也有现代的一面。