Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.

  • -- Ernest Bramah 欧内司特·布拉默

虽然有成千上万的话题可以进行优雅的交谈,但是有些人在遇到瘸子时不能不谈到脚。

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There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and suddenly your all bound together because you share your humanity in one simple moment.

有些时候,你和某人握手,和某人交谈,突然间,你所有的人都被绑在了一起,因为你在一个简单的时刻分享了你的人性。

I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in the family, in the person that people expected me to be.

如果我留在智利,我想我不会成为一名作家。我将被困在家务琐事中,在家庭中,在人们期望我成为的那个人里。

Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature.

希区柯克说得很清楚。有一个客观的和主观的摄像机,就像文学中有一个第三人称叙述者和一个第一人称叙述者。

Our pointless conversations mean a lot to me.

我们毫无意义的谈话对我意义重大。