It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.

  • -- Jack Kerouac 杰克·凯鲁亚克

某些所谓的波西米亚元素在我的作品中找到了一些东西,把他们独特的“垮一代”理论挂在上面,这并不是我的错。

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Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.

波希米亚不过是一个你不住的小地方。如果你想在那里获得公民身份,朝廷和随从们立刻把王室的档案和财宝打包,搬到山那边去。

A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples.

我们这个时代的第二个特点是民族主义的盛行。这种情况仍在蔓延,影响着新的社区、更边缘的地区和所谓的落后民族。

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

伟大的抱负,对真正的优越性的渴望,对领导和指导的渴望,似乎完全是人类所特有的,而演讲是实现抱负的伟大工具。

As the middle begins to feel safe enough to accept some of the so-called radical thinking, ideas move to the middle and a new edge is created.

当中间派开始感到足够安全,可以接受一些所谓的激进思想时,思想就会转移到中间派,形成新的边缘。

Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.

我们的文化特别推崇指责行为,认为这是美德和智慧的标志。

I've found that small wins, small projects, small differences often make huge differences.

我发现小的成功,小的项目,小的差异往往会产生巨大的差异。

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.

我发现,失去幸福的一种必然的方式,就是牺牲其他一切来换取幸福。

Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.

我们乐意使别人十全十美,但我们不能改正自己的错误。

Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.

贿赂虽小,罪过却大。