My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orchestra. It has been a great success. We give performances; we've become the most famous bad orchestra in the world.

  • -- Alexander McCall Smith 亚历山大·麦考·史密斯

我和我的妻子伊丽莎白为像我们这样的人组建了一个非常糟糕的管弦乐队,我们这些人都是非常绝望的音乐家,想在管弦乐队演奏。这是一个巨大的成功。我们表演节目;我们已经成为世界上最著名的坏乐团。

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The more you participate in our common endeavors, the more successful your work in the factory, mine, wharf or village, in an economic institute or in the arts, in commerce or administration, the sooner we will be where we all want to be.

你们越多地参与我们的共同努力,你们在工厂、矿山、码头或村庄、在经济学院或艺术学院、在商业或行政管理领域的工作就越成功,我们就会越快实现我们所有人的目标。

I may not have proved a great explorer, but we have done the greatest march ever made and come very near to great success.

我也许没有证明自己是一个伟大的探险家,但我们已经完成了史上最伟大的征程,并已接近伟大的成功。