You know how fighting fish do it? They blow bubbles and in each one of those bubbles is an egg and they float the egg up to the surface. They keep this whole heavy nest of eggs floating, and they're constantly repairing it. It's as if they live in both elements.

  • -- Audre Lorde 罗尔蒂

你知道斗鱼是怎么做到的吗?它们吹泡泡,每个泡泡里都有一个鸡蛋,它们把鸡蛋浮到水面。它们让这个沉重的蛋巢漂浮着,并不断地修复它。就好像它们同时存在于这两种元素中。

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These days it's cool to be ethnic and to be different, but when I was a kid, it was not cool - at all. My friends would come over and my mom would make crepes with eggs, stuffed with mozzarella cheese, tomatoes and spinach. And they'd be like, 'What is this?'

如今,种族和与众不同很酷,但当我还是个孩子的时候,这一点都不酷。我的朋友们会来我家,我妈妈会用鸡蛋做薄饼,里面塞满了马苏里拉奶酪、西红柿和菠菜。他们会说,‘这是什么?’

I remarked constantly, just at sunset, in these latitudes, that the eastern horizon was brilliantly illuminated with a kind of mock sunset. This in a short time disappeared, to be soon succeeded by another similar in character, but more faint.

就在日落的时候,在这样的纬度上,我不断地说,东方的地平线被一种模拟的日落灿烂地照亮了。这一点在很短的时间内就消失了,接着是另一个相似的性格,但更微弱。

To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.

作为一个人,作为一个成年人,意味着不断地处于对立情绪的控制之中,每天都要调和明显冲突的紧张关系。我想要这个,但又需要那个。我珍视这一点,但我也热爱它的反面。

Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.

别人睡觉时,植物却醒了。羞怯的茉莉花的蓓蕾整天保持着它自己的香气,但是当阳光消逝的时候,让那美妙的秘密向四处飘荡的微风透露吧。

Also the fact that anything he does is seen and heard by the entire country, not just his actual audience or those who live in the region he happens to be in.

事实上,他所做的任何事情都会被整个国家所看到和听到,而不仅仅是他的真正的听众或那些恰好住在他所在地区的人。

I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.

我曾经,而且将继续,尽我所能,和那该死的、肮脏的、腐朽的事业作斗争。

We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

我们都应该在变老之前开始生活。恐惧是愚蠢的。遗憾也是如此。

Keep no secrets of thyself from thyself.

不要对自己保守秘密。

We just kept hanging in and fighting.

我们只是坚持和战斗。

O eggs, never fight with stones!

鸡蛋啊,千万别和石头打架!