A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.

  • -- Abraham Polonsky 鲍伦斯基

节日是庆祝一些已经结束的事情,那是很久以前的事了,现在除了死者没有什么可庆祝的了。

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I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there's nothing left for you to work towards. I want to believe that there is a mountain so high that I will spend my entire life striving to reach the top of it.

我认为,当你开始认为自己已经取得了一些成就,那么你就没有什么可以为之努力的了。我想要相信,有一座山是如此之高,我将用我的一生努力达到它的顶端。

During National Playground Safety Week, I'll celebrate common-sense safety. I'll also celebrate skinned knees and bruised elbows. I'll celebrate so-called 'dangerous' playgrounds - playgrounds with see-saws, zip lines and towering slides.

在全国操场安全周期间,我将庆祝常识安全。我还会庆祝膝盖擦伤和肘部擦伤。我将庆祝所谓的“危险”操场——有跷跷板、拉索和高耸的滑梯的操场。

As a novelist, I suppose I can say that I'm highly articulate. But I know, as a person, in other ways, I'm not always articulate. I think we are all, from time to time, inarticulate, at some level, about some things.

作为一个小说家,我想我可以说我的表达能力很强。但我知道,作为一个人,在其他方面,我并不总是能言善辩。我认为,在某种程度上,我们有时,对某些事情都是口齿不清的。

I get very excited when I go to a show - there are all these people who don't know each another who've come together to celebrate this amazing ritual. The making of community that theater provides is quite profound.

当我去看演出的时候,我感到非常兴奋——所有这些互不认识的人聚在一起庆祝这个令人惊奇的仪式。戏剧所提供的社区的形成是相当深刻的。

The second trial was a fair trial. I do not call it a second trial. I call it a fair trial, as opposed to the first trial, which was an unfair trial, a Roman holiday.

第二次审判是一次公正的审判。我不认为这是第二次审判。我称之为公正的审判,而不是第一次审判,那是一个不公平的审判,罗马假日。

I have been keeping myself fit. I am going on holiday next week in the Mediterranean so that I can really unwind after the football season and have a rest.

我一直保持健康。下周我要去地中海度假,这样我就可以在足球赛季结束后真正地放松一下,休息一下。

One thing I learned a long time ago as a prosecutor is that it's tough to get people to obey a law if there is not penalty for breaking it.

很久以前,作为一名检察官,我学到的一件事是,如果没有对违法者的惩罚,要让他们遵守法律是很难的。

There is one advantage to having nothing, it never needs repair.

一无所有有一个好处,它永远不需要修理。