I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.

  • -- Yann Martel 扬·马泰尔

我喜欢用动物,因为它们有助于消除读者的怀疑。我们对牙医有一些想法。我们对犀牛牙医没有太多想法。

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People have bad things to say about publishers, but I think they still have services, and I want to see what they are. And if they end up not being any good, I don't have to keep using them.

人们对出版商有不好的评价,但我认为他们仍然有服务,我想看看他们是什么。如果它们最终没有任何用处,我就不用一直用它们了。

Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.

任何在使用电脑时忘记时间的人都知道梦想的倾向、实现梦想的冲动和错过午餐的倾向。

Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.

知识分子认为思想比价值更重要。也就是说,自己的想法和别人的价值观。

Dedication involves making the space to let young ideas take hold; every tree was once a seed and every company was once an idea.

奉献包括为年轻的想法腾出空间;每棵树都曾是一粒种子,每一个公司都曾是一个想法。

I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me.

如果我能找到勇敢的人来帮助我,我准备行动。

Negativity doesn't help me.

消极帮不了我。