I remember being awed by it - the uniqueness and nicety of style - and I suspect I was a bit jealous because we were more or less of the same generation.

  • -- George Plimpton 乔治·普林顿

我记得我被它所震撼——它的独特和精致的风格——我怀疑我有点嫉妒,因为我们差不多是同一代人。

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It took us a long time to find out that we had been lied to by our parents' generation. The moralities that were followed during our parents' generation were basically arbitrary. This caused a rift between the two generations, which was brought on by the beatniks.

我们花了很长时间才发现我们被父母那一代欺骗了。我们父母那代人遵循的道德规范基本上是武断的。这导致了两代人之间的裂痕,这是由垮掉的一代带来的。

Normally, I could hit hard enough, as anyone who studied my fights might have known. But the impression was that I was essentially defensive, the very reverse of a killer, the prize fighter who read books, even Shakespeare.

正常情况下,我能打出足够的重拳,任何研究过我拳法的人都知道这一点。但我给人的印象是,我本质上是防御性的,与一个杀手截然相反,一个阅读书籍的职业拳击手,甚至是莎士比亚。

Mum used to hide love letters from my boyfriends and put me down. Now I understand that she was a Polish immigrant forced to settle in Chicago. She was jealous of the freedom life gave me.

妈妈过去常常把情书藏起来不让我的男朋友看到,还把我放下来。现在我明白了,她是被迫在芝加哥定居的波兰移民。她嫉妒生活给我的自由。

I'm a designer, I love it, and I haven't worked this hard to do bad work.

我是一名设计师,我喜欢它,我从来没有这么努力去做不好的工作。

Every writer is a writer of the generation before.

每个作家都是上一代人的作家。

I get jealous of stupid things.

我嫉妒愚蠢的事情。