But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

  • -- George Eliot 乔治·艾略特

但是,那种彼此感到尴尬的亲密关系,即双方都感到对方有某种感觉,而这种感觉一旦存在,其影响是无法消除的。

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But I learned that there's a certain character that can be built from embarrassing yourself endlessly. If you can sit happy with embarrassment, there's not much else that can really get to ya.

但我明白了,有一种性格可以通过无休止地让自己难堪来塑造。如果你能忍受尴尬而快乐地坐着,你就不会有太多其他的烦恼了。

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

几乎我们所有的关系都是从相互剥削开始的,其中大多数都是作为一种精神或物质交换的形式继续存在的,当一方或双方的货物用完时,这种关系就会终止。

Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.

事物的存在和本性是相互依存的,它们自身是虚无的。

They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.

他们很快就陷入了一种从未恢复的亲密关系。

To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.

令我尴尬的是,我出生在一位女士的床上。