A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
问题
Question
Did I do all right?
我做得好吗?
Never ask a bore a question.
永远不要问无聊的问题。
Good questions outrank easy answers.
好的问题比简单的答案更重要。
Who really needs a new album from me?
谁真的需要我的新专辑?
Have you ever tried to split sawdust?
你试过劈开锯末吗?
Where’s the stage and what’s the play?
舞台在哪里?剧本是什么?
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
我怎样爱你?让我数一数。
You aren't going to leave me alone are you?
你不会丢下我一个人吧?
Tell me, Connie, is your mother still dead?
告诉我，康妮，你妈妈还死吗?
He who frames the question wins the debate.
提出问题的人赢得辩论。
Literature is the question minus the answer.
文学就是问题减去答案。
If you never change your mind, why have one?
如果你从不改变主意，为什么要改变呢?
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Science fiction made me aware of how big and strange the universe was, leaving aside the whole question of aliens.
科幻小说让我意识到宇宙有多大，有多奇怪，把外星人这个问题抛诸脑后。
I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help.
我从不质疑该做什么，它告诉我该做什么。这些照片是在我的帮助下完成的。
Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.
写作是找到某种节奏的问题。我把它比作爵士乐的节奏。大多数时候，生活是由三个字有节奏地发展而成的。如果一个人告诉自己生活就是这样，他就不会觉得那么武断。
At every turn, when humanity is asked the question, 'Do you want temporary economic gain or long-term environmental loss, which one do you prefer,' we invariably choose the money.
每当有人问人类“你想要暂时的经济利益还是长期的环境损失，你更喜欢哪一个?”
One question always leads to another question. Some things are better to wonder about.
一个问题总是引出另一个问题。有些事情最好去思考。
When he says he loves me, it only means he loves me at that particular instant. Like his promises, which he never keeps. Why does he torment me like this, when he could finish it off at once?
当他说他爱我的时候，那只是意味着他在那个特定的时刻爱我。就像他从不遵守的诺言。他既然能立刻把这事了结，为什么还要这样折磨我呢?