These wealthy people were very interested in contemporary music. They wanted to help diffuse it and get it to be known to other people.

  • -- Elliott Cook Carter Jr 小艾略特·库克·卡特

这些有钱人对当代音乐很感兴趣。他们想帮助传播它,让别人知道它。

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The novel that's contemporary in the sense of being wholly 'of now' is an impossibility, if only because novels may take years to write, so the 'now' with which they begin will be defunct by the time they're finished.

从完全“当下”的意义上讲,当代小说是不可能的,因为小说可能要花好几年的时间来写,所以小说开头的“现在”在写完的时候就已经不存在了。

We all look to have transcendent experiences that lift us out of the everyday, and fear is a good one. But, I think it's the same reason why people want to laugh their heads off.

我们都希望有超越自我的体验,让我们从日常生活中解脱出来,而恐惧是一种很好的体验。但是,我认为这也是人们想笑掉大牙的原因。

Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you'll have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either of them might run out.

别指望别人会支持你。也许你会有一个信托基金。也许你会有一个富有的配偶。但你永远不知道它们什么时候会用完。

When I was in the fourth grade, I became intensely interested in geography and I learned it well.

当我在四年级的时候,我对地理产生了浓厚的兴趣,我学得很好。

We simply write the kind of music we enjoy most and hope that our audience will enjoy it too.

我们只是写我们最喜欢的音乐,并希望我们的观众也会喜欢它。

You can't command people to do their best; they can only command that of themselves.

你不能命令人们尽力而为;他们只能控制自己。

When it came to the music that we produced, I am pretty happy with what we did.

说到我们制作的音乐,我对我们所做的很满意。

We are looking at a future where to a first approximation, everyone is wealthy.

我们所看到的未来是,每个人都很富有。

Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.

当代思想家会说,人在不断地超越自己。

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

我对维持现状不感兴趣;我想推翻它。