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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A large fraction of the most interesting scientists have read a lot of SF at one time or another, either early enough that it may have played a part in their becoming scientists or at some later date just because they liked the ideas.

大部分最有趣的科学家都曾经或多或少地读过很多科幻小说,要么是在他们成为科学家的过程中就已经读过了,要么是在他们后来成为科学家的过程中,因为他们喜欢科幻小说中的观点。

Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.

在保留了某种乐趣的商店里,创造性的想法最能蓬勃发展。没有人做生意是为了乐趣,但这并不意味着做生意就没有乐趣。

I'm really just using the mirror to summon something I don't even know until I see it.

我真的只是在用镜子召唤一些直到我看到才知道的东西。

I need one psychological expert to help me concentrate.

我需要一位心理专家来帮助我集中注意力。

I am using soybean based ink, which is recyclable.

我用的是大豆油墨,是可回收的。

Helping someone is what life is all about.

帮助别人是生活的全部。