A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
安静地
Quietly
The tiger that prowls quietly doesn't mean it's intimidated.
老虎悄悄地潜行并不意味着它害怕。
Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs?
你是要安静地来，还是要我用耳塞?
For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water.
我们平静地生活了一小段时间。但这种情况不会持续太久。白人在盘山绕水的地方发现了金子。
How often one reads a contemporary full-length novel and thinks quietly, mutinously, that it would have worked out better at half or a third the length.
有多少次，一个人在读一本当代的长篇小说时，会不动声色地、反叛地想，要是能读到一半或三分之一的篇幅就更好了。
For me, writing a novel is more like digging a well than climbing a mountain - some heroic thing where I set out to conquer. I just sit quietly for a few years, and then it starts to become something.
对我来说，写小说更像是打一口井，而不是爬山——一件我要征服的英雄壮举。我只是静静地坐了几年，然后它开始变得有意义。