A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
悲伤
Grief
I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
我从未找到过比独处更好的伴侣。在大多数情况下，当我们出国与人交往时，比我们呆在自己的房间里时更感到孤独。一个思考或工作的人总是孤独的，让他去他想去的地方。
Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun? One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
传道者说，虚空的虚空，虚空的虚空。凡事都是虚空。人一切的劳碌，就是他在日光之下的劳碌，有什么益处呢。一代过去，一代又来。地却永远长存。
There's something melancholy about professors because they're chronically abandoned. They form these lovely relationships with students and then the students leave and the professors stay the same. It's like they're chronically abandoned.
教授们有些忧郁，因为他们长期被遗弃。他们与学生们建立了这种可爱的关系，然后学生们离开了，教授们也留下来了。就像他们被长期抛弃一样。
By the time I got to the hospital, I certainly realised that I had a problem because I couldn't write or print at that time, which lasted luckily only about four months. I'd gone numb here and on my tongue and the right foot a little bit.
当我到医院的时候，我当然意识到我有一个问题，因为我不能写或打印在那个时候，幸运的是，这只持续了大约四个月。我的舌头和右脚都麻木了。
I have worked very hard on being aware of my childhood but moving forward and not letting it bring me down emotionally. That is a hard thing - especially when you have children of your own and you remember what happened to you at that age.
我努力让自己意识到自己的童年，但我要向前看，不要让它让我情绪低落。这是一件很难的事情，尤其是当你有了自己的孩子，你还记得在那个年龄发生了什么。
The most terrifying thing I can think of is being alone - and I mean utterly alone, like no one else in the world alone - at night. That's the nucleus of the first story in my collection and it's also where the title came from for the book.
我能想到的最可怕的事情就是在晚上一个人——我是说完全的一个人，不像世界上其他任何一个人——一个人。这是我收集的第一个故事的核心，也是书名的来源。
I wanted it not to be true. I wanted it not to be her plane. I wanted it - I wanted, if it was her plane, to have somehow survived because she was in the back of the airplane. But we know that doesn't happen, not with those sorts of things.
我不希望这是真的。我不想让它成为她的飞机。我想要——如果那是她的飞机，我想要以某种方式幸存下来，因为她在飞机的后部。但我们知道这不会发生，不会发生在这类事情上。
You know that you've healed an issue when you can talk about it and you're not weeping, when you can speak to it and identify the lesson. You know that you've healed an issue when, having gone through that, has a benefit that you live today.
你知道当你可以谈论一个问题而不是哭泣时，当你可以和它交谈并从中吸取教训时，你已经治愈了这个问题。你知道你已经治愈了一个问题，当你经历了那个，你就会受益于你今天的生活。
They did nothing but put her in the same cabin that everyone had been complaining about and they closed the door and left her. They didn't make any effort to reunite her with her husband, who was either on the balcony or had just fallen off.
他们什么也没做，只是把她关在每个人都在抱怨的那个小屋里，然后关上门离开了她。他们没有做任何努力让她和丈夫团聚，她的丈夫要么在阳台上，要么刚刚掉下来。
We’re all going to go crazy, living this epidemic every minute, while the rest of the world goes on out there, all around us, as if nothing is happening, going on with their own lives and not knowing what it’s like, what we’re going through.
我们都会疯掉，每时每刻都生活在这种流行病中，而世界上的其他人，我们周围的人，好像什么都没发生一样，过着他们自己的生活，却不知道这是什么样子，我们正在经历什么。
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
你知道，音乐竟然如此美妙，这太残酷了。它有孤独之美，有痛苦之美，有力量之美，有自由之美。失望之美和永不满足的爱。残酷的自然美和永恒的单调之美。
As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through.
作为一个年轻人，你根本没有注意到自己受到了严重的影响。在那之后的几年里，至少十年里，我不断地做着这样的梦，在梦里，我不得不爬过破烂不堪的房子，沿着我几乎无法通过的通道。
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He who can conceal his joys, is greater than he who can hide his griefs.
能隐藏快乐的人，比能隐藏悲伤的人更伟大。
Memories, even hard memories, grew soft like peaches as they grow older.
回忆，即使是艰难的回忆，随着年龄的增长也会变得像桃子一样柔软。
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven?
悲伤在你身上刻得越深，你就能包含越多的快乐。那盛着你酒的杯，不正是在陶匠的窑里烧过的杯吗?
Sometimes grief is a comfort we grant ourselves because it's less terrifying than trying for joy.
有时候，悲伤是我们给自己的一种安慰，因为它没有为快乐而努力那么可怕。