A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
问题
Question
Now the big question is if you are going to go to all the trouble of setting an opera and making all that music and so on, there's got to be some aspect that you can do in an opera that really makes it worth while.
现在最大的问题是，如果你要花大力气去设置一个歌剧，制作所有的音乐等等，你必须在歌剧中做一些事情，让它真正有价值。
Today not even a universal fire could make the torrential poetic production of our time disappear. But it is exactly a question of production, that is, of hand-made products which are subject to the laws of taste and fashion.
今天，即使是一场宇宙之火也不能使我们这个时代汹涌澎湃的诗歌创作消失。但这恰恰是生产的问题，也就是说，手工制作的产品必须符合品味和时尚的规律。
There is only one thing I want. I would like to be seriously ill, and to hear nothing more about him for at least a week. Why doesn't something happen to me? Why do I have to go through all this? If only I had never set eyes on him!
我只想要一样东西。我希望自己病得很重，至少一个星期不要再听到他的消息。为什么我没有发生什么事?我为什么要经历这些?要是我从来没有见过他就好了!
The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence.
决定我们命运的问题不是我们是否要向太空扩张。它是:我们是一个物种还是一百万?一百万个物种不会耗尽等待智能到来的生态位。
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。
The main question in drama, the way I was taught, is always, 'What does the protagonist want?' That's what drama is. It comes down to that. It's not about theme, it's not about ideas, it's not about setting, but what the protagonist wants.
在戏剧中，我学到的主要问题总是，‘主角想要什么?“这就是戏剧。归根到底。这不是主题，不是想法，不是背景，而是主角想要什么。
The question is not only what is grown but what it's used for. There's not going to be a mass transformation of dietary habits in rich countries-on the contrary, the first thing people do when they become more prosperous is to buy more meat.
问题不仅在于种植什么，还在于它的用途。富裕国家的饮食习惯不会发生大规模转变——相反，当人们变得更富裕时，他们做的第一件事就是买更多的肉。
At this point we've answered about every question you could possibly imagine about Deep Space Nine, so we do this thing called Theatrical Jazz, where we do a show of bits and pieces of things from plays and literature, poetry... stuff that we like. It's fun.
在这一点上，我们已经回答了所有你能想到的关于深空九号的问题，所以我们做了一个叫做戏剧爵士的东西，在那里我们做了一个关于戏剧、文学、诗歌的点点滴滴的展示…我们喜欢的东西。这很有趣。
So my own suspicion is that the attorney has stopped this prosecution because part of her defence was to question legality and that would have brought his advice into the public domain again and there was something fishy about the way in which he said war was legal.
所以我个人的怀疑是，律师已经停止了起诉，因为她辩护的一部分是质疑合法性，这将把他的建议再次带入公共领域，他说战争是合法的方式有些可疑。
Is it a surprise that into the vessel, in which the mercury has no inclination and no repugnance, not even the slightest, to being there, it should enter and should rise in a column high enough to make equilibrium with the weight of the external air which forces it up?
水银在容器中没有倾斜度，没有任何反感，甚至没有丝毫的反感，因此，当它进入容器时，它应该上升到足够高的水柱中，使之与迫使它上升的外部空气的重量达到平衡，这难道不奇怪吗?
I've never tried to find my real parents. I'm very grateful to my mum and dad for adopting me - they're completely incredible people. It was my dad who encouraged me to question everything, to forge my own path, to think, to read. I always felt it was my right to question everything.
我从未试着找到我真正的父母。我非常感谢我的父母收养了我——他们是非常了不起的人。是我的父亲鼓励我去质疑一切，去开拓自己的道路，去思考，去阅读。我总是觉得我有权质疑一切。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
What is the effect of unlimited coinage of silver in this country? and I invite your attention to this particularly, because it is a question of vital importance.
在这个国家无限铸造银币有什么影响?我特别请你们注意这一点，因为这是一个至关重要的问题。
The risk from viruses is an unanswered question - and it won't be answered until you have had organs transplanted into humans over many years.
来自病毒的风险是一个没有答案的问题——直到你的器官多年来被移植到人类身上，这个问题才会得到答案。
Who really needs a new album from me?
谁真的需要我的新专辑?
After all the work I've done, why should I suddenly be treated as a bona fide actress?
在我做了这么多工作之后，为什么我要突然被当成一个真正的演员?
I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?
我一直被认为是一个悲观主义者，但一个认为人是自己的上帝，他的未来只能胜利的人，不隐藏着无知和自私的深渊吗?
I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.
我认为好的广播经常使用小说的技巧:人物，场景，一个大的迫切的情感问题。和最好的小说一样，语气也很重要。