A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
问题
Question
I am writing a sequel to The Touch because I want to further explore the Chinese question that I have raised. There will be more about that in a sequel.
我正在写触摸的续集，因为我想进一步探索我提出的中文问题。在续集中会有更多关于这方面的内容。
Each generation's job is to question what parents accept on faith, to explore possibilities, and adapt the last generation's system of values for a new age.
每一代人的工作是质疑父母的信仰，探索可能性，并适应上一代人的价值观体系，以适应新时代。
Whenever I start a novel, I'm always looking for two things: a bit of science that makes me go 'what if?' and a piece of history that ends in a question mark.
每当我开始写小说的时候，我总是在寻找两件事:一点能让我思考“如果……会怎样?”以及一段以问号结尾的历史。
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。
Am I worried people will say I'm repeating myself? Sure. One thought I had was to publish it as a novel but eventually I just decided to do what I wanted to do.
我担心人们会说我在重复我自己吗?确定。一个想法是把它写成小说出版，但最终我决定做我想做的事。
It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances.
动机的影响是否由自然规律所决定，使它们在同样的情况下总是具有同样的效果，这是一个事实问题。
What Must I Do to Be Saved? It is impossible to ask a more weighty Question! It is deplorable that we hear it asked with no more Frequency, with nor more Agony.
我必须做什么才能得救?问一个更重要的问题是不可能的!令人遗憾的是，我们听到这一问题的频率和痛苦都没有增加。
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。
I don't believe he had a responsibility to even answer that question - you have no responsibility to answer personal questions that people have no right to ask you.
我认为他甚至没有责任回答那个问题——你没有责任回答别人无权问你的私人问题。
There is no question but that the laws and principles which Solon laid down both foreshadowed and prepared the way for all republics of later ages, including our own.
毫无疑问，梭伦所制定的法律和原则为后来的所有共和国，包括我们自己的共和国，都作了预兆和准备。
I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it does with male characters and male authors.
我的理论是，比起男性角色和男性作者，女性作者创造的女性角色更容易出现可爱度问题。
They feel assured, as to yourself, that if the option remain with you, it is but a question of time and of form when and how a proclamation of emancipation will be issued.
他们相信，就像你自己一样，如果你还有选择的余地，那只是时间和形式的问题，何时以及如何发表解放宣言。
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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。
Good questions outrank easy answers.
好的问题比简单的答案更重要。
What is it like when you see me in all these films and then you meet me? Were you intimidated?
当你在所有这些电影中看到我，然后又遇见我，那是什么感觉?你害怕吗?
The big question is: When will the term structure of interest rates change? That's the question to be worried about.
最大的问题是:利率期限结构何时会发生变化?这是一个值得担心的问题。
We need more foreign reach; no question about that. And we're working on getting that. We need more people abroad; we need some more bureaus. That is really an important job.
我们需要更多的海外业务;这是毫无疑问的。我们正在努力做到这一点。我们需要更多的人出国;我们需要更多的分局。那真是一项重要的工作。
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。