A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
非洲
African
I've been to North Africa many times.
我去过北非很多次。
What's really good is African drum music.
真正好的是非洲鼓乐。
I am an African and I am very proud of that.
我是一个非洲人，我为此感到非常自豪。
If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.
如果你想把事情做好，就找几个老伙计来做。
I have always regarded myself, in the first place, as an African patriot.
首先，我一直认为自己是一个非洲爱国者。
The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.
非洲人是我的兄弟，但他是我几个世纪以来的弟弟。
It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
遗憾的是，一个人无法想象自己无法与任何事物相比。天才是一个梦想下雪的非洲人。
We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African victims.
我们说，国际刑事法院的目标是非洲人，但是在我们在非洲的案件中，所有的受害者都是非洲人。
I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.
我很难说服学生们，他们去北非是为了了解北非人，而不是为了了解他们自己。
The North African mule talks always of his mother's brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more reputable.
北非的骡子总是谈论他母亲的兄弟马，但从不谈论他的父亲驴，而更喜欢那些据说更有名望的人。
For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism. It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian.
对我们非洲人来说，文学必须有一个目的:揭露、羞辱和打击腐败和威权主义。非洲艺术家的功利主义是可以理解的。
Because the mask is your face, the face is a mask, so I'm thinking of the face as a mask because of the way I see faces is coming from an African vision of the mask which is the thing that we carry around with us, it is our presentation, it's our front, it's our face.
因为面具脸,脸是一个面具,我想脸上的面具,因为我看到面临来自非洲的面具是我们随身携带的东西,它是我们的演示,我们的面前,这是我们的脸。