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经常
Often
I've never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the cliches of cultures they know nothing about.
我一直不明白，为什么艺术家们总是屈尊于自己文化的陈词滥调，却如此渴望接受自己一无所知的文化的陈词滥调。
I'm shocked at being recognized. You go to places you don't think you would be and still, you are. Taxi drivers often recognise me... but I haven't got a free ride yet.
我被认出来感到震惊。你去了一些你认为你不会去的地方，但你还是去了。出租车司机经常认出我……但是我还没有免费乘车。
Often for hors d'oeuvres, I serve room temperature vegetables, something like that, so that the main course might be quite rich but the first course has balanced it out.
我通常会在开胃小菜上放一些常温蔬菜之类的东西，这样主菜可能会很丰盛，但第一道菜的味道就很平衡了。
In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee - or laugh.
在史前时代，人类在危急时刻往往只有两种选择:战斗或逃跑。在现代，幽默为我们提供了第三种选择;战斗，逃跑，或者大笑。
To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of.
在实验结束后向统计学家咨询，通常只是让他进行尸检。他也许能说出这个实验的原因。
The irony of our social group is that so often everyone feels this, but there's no company whatsoever in that feeling. Think of Pound's great emphasis, the way out is via the door.
具有讽刺意味的是，我们这个社会群体的每个人都经常有这种感觉，但这种感觉中却没有任何同伴。想想庞德的重点，出路是通过门。
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.
一个受过教育的人是这样的人:他知道，事实往往是，信息至多是不完整的，而且往往是错误的、误导人的、虚构的、虚假的——完全是错误的。
I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it.
我常常注意到，当我赋予小说中的人物一些珍贵的往事之后，它就会在我突然赋予它的那个人造的世界里枯萎。
It was from an old friend who thought he was dying. Anyway, he said, 'Life and death issues don't come along that often, thank God, so don't treat everything like it's life or death. Go easier.'
是一位以为自己快死了的老朋友寄来的。无论如何，他说，生与死的问题不常发生，感谢上帝，所以不要把每件事都当作是生与死。更容易去。”
Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
每一项伟大的工作，每一项伟大的成就，都是通过坚持理想而实现的，往往就在取得伟大成就之前，就会出现明显的失败和挫折。
Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors that they are ready to repeat their lessons as often as we please.
书是站着的顾问和传道人，总是在手边，总是无私的;与口语老师相比，他们有一个优势，那就是他们随时准备重复他们的课程。
That being said, I often write into recipes techniques I learned in the restaurant kitchen. There are ways of organizing your prep and so on that are immensely useful. Those are woven into all the recipes I do.
也就是说，我经常把在餐馆厨房学到的烹饪技巧写进食谱里。有很多方法可以组织你的准备工作，这些方法非常有用。我做的所有食谱都包含了这些。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
I admit that the eyes of the intellectually and culturally lively tend to glaze over at the mere mention of sociology, often with ample justification.
我承认，只要一提到社会学，那些在智力和文化上活跃的人的眼睛就会变得呆滞，而且往往有充分的理由。
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.
当我们诚实地问自己生命中谁对我们最重要时，我们常常发现，是那些人，他们没有给出建议、解决方案或治愈方法，而是选择与我们分享痛苦，用温暖而温柔的手触摸我们的伤口。
I fly economy. I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant.
我飞的经济。我经常坐头等舱，但我不跟团、保镖或助理一起旅行。
This part of being a man, changing the way we parent, happens only when we want it to. It changes because we are determined for it to change; and the motive for changing often comes out of wanting to be the kind of parent we didn't have.
作为一个男人，改变我们为人父母的方式，只有在我们想要的时候才会发生。它的改变是因为我们决心让它改变;而改变的动机往往来自想成为我们没有的那种父母。
Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.
把事情做好常常是浪费时间。
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
今天的很多教育都非常低效。我们常常在应该教年轻人自己种花的时候，却给他们插花。