No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original.

  • -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich 托马斯·贝利·奥尔德里奇

从来没有一只鸟发出过不是第一只鸟喉咙里发出的声音;自从伊甸园的清新和人类的堕落以来,没有一朵玫瑰是原创的。

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We are told that the trouble with modern man is that he has been trying to detach himself from nature... In this scenario, Man comes on as a stupendous lethal force, and the Earth is pictured as something delicate, like rising bubbles at the surface of a country pond, or flights of fragile birds.

我们被告知现代人的问题在于他一直试图使自己脱离自然。在这种情况下,人类作为一种巨大的致命力量出现,而地球被描绘成一种微妙的东西,就像一个乡村池塘表面升起的气泡,或者脆弱的鸟类的飞翔。

A story is a burden which must be carried with as much care as we carry a sleeping child.

故事是一种负担,我们必须像抱着一个熟睡的孩子一样小心翼翼地背着它。

I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk.

我不喜欢魔幻现实主义的虚幻境界,那里的鸟会说话。

To cut a long story short, I'm a writer.

长话短说,我是个作家。