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As soon as she gets her divorce one of us is going to marry her. We don't know which. She is about as beautiful a woman as I ever saw, and very witty and well-informed, but it would cost a good deal to keep her in diamonds.
她一离婚,我们中的一个就要和她结婚了。我们不知道是哪个。她大概是我所见过的最漂亮的女人,非常聪明,消息灵通,但是要把她留在钻石里要花很多钱。
Rich kids gave us their old clothes. They were the best clothes we ever had. We were these very pure, naive, poor children. The rich kids called us a lot of names but it never bothered us because we didn't know what the words meant.
有钱的孩子把他们的旧衣服给了我们。它们是我们有过的最好的衣服。我们都是非常纯洁、天真、贫穷的孩子。有钱人家的孩子给我们起了很多名字,但我们从不介意,因为我们不知道这些词的意思。
If you know how many acres you have sown of each kind of corn, inquire how much the acre the soil of that land takes for sowing, and count the number of quarters of seed, and you shall know the return of seed, and what ought to be over.
你若知道每种谷种你种了多少亩,就可以问那地的土产有多少亩可以种,也可以数一数四分之一种的子粒,便知道子粒的结果,和应当怎样了结。
I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.
我认为我为比我想象中更多的人写作的想法已经产生了一种文学和政治上的普遍责任。我甚至有一种自豪感,因为我不想落后于我以前所做的。
You think about some of the most memorable meals you've ever had; the food will be good but it will often be about locating a mental memory and taste is inexorably linked to all the other senses and memory, so ultimately it is all about taste.
你会想起一些你吃过的最难忘的食物;食物会很好,但它往往是关于定位一个心理记忆和味道是不可避免地联系到所有其他的感官和记忆,所以最终是关于味道。
Acting is such a personal thing, which is weird because at the same time it's not. It's for the consumption of other people. But in terms of creative outlets and expressing yourself, it's just the most extreme version of that that I've ever found.
演戏是一件很私人的事情,这很奇怪,因为它不是。这是给别人吃的。但就创造性的表达方式和表达自己而言,这是我所发现的最极端的版本。
I think we're returning to more of the original vibration of music and creativity through the removal of this distortion called the music industry. That's where we're heading. And it'll cut out a lot of music if people ever expected to make money.
我认为,通过消除这种被称为音乐产业的扭曲,我们正在回归更多的音乐和创造力的原始振动。这就是我们要去的地方。如果人们想要赚钱,它会砍掉很多音乐。
So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.
只要生产和交换生活资料的竞争制度继续下去,艺术就会继续退化;如果这一体系要永远持续下去,那么艺术就注定要消亡,也必然会消亡;也就是说,文明将会消亡。
I get really cool gifts, and I know this sounds really lame, but I think one of the best gifts I've ever received was the Easy Bake Oven when I was younger. When I was little, I loved to bake! I want to get one now so I can make weird mini desserts for people.
我收到很酷的礼物,我知道这听起来很差劲,但我认为我收到的最好的礼物之一是我年轻时收到的简易烤箱。当我小的时候,我喜欢烘焙!我想现在就买一个,这样我就可以为人们做一些奇怪的迷你甜点。
I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels and that most of them aren't any good. Most of them are self-conscious and bitter, the work of people who want to settle grudges.
我坚决反对写学术小说。我一直认为,学术小说已经够多了,而且大多数都不好。他们中的大多数人都是有自我意识的和痛苦的,他们的工作是那些想要解决怨恨的人的工作。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
一个人如果把一件很困难的事情做得很好,他就不会失去自尊。
Races and nations are thus ever ready to believe the worst of one another.
因此,种族和国家总是准备相信对方最坏的一面。
Every record that I've ever made, I listen to it so much before it comes out. As soon as it comes out, I never listen to it again. It's, like, over.
我做过的每一张唱片,在发行之前我都会听很多遍。它一出来,我就再也不听了。喜欢,结束了。
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
中年时期,男人总是在想,一两周后他会感觉和以前一样好。
I've experienced as much fame as I ever want to.
我已经经历了太多我想要的名声。
We were flying on a winged vehicle that would do reentry different than we had ever done before. So all of those were firsts. Test pilots truly love firsts.
我们是在一个有翼的飞行器上飞行,它将做的再入不同于我们以前做过的。这些都是第一次。试飞员真的喜欢第一次。