I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

  • -- Henry David Thoreau 亨利·大卫·梭罗

我想,没有什么,甚至没有犯罪,比这种没完没了的工作更反对诗歌,更反对哲学,更反对生活本身了。

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I guess some people are brilliant enough to be brilliant on their own and never doubt anything and come up with fabulous things. But I think it's good to get into arguments with people and have them say, 'That sucks' or 'You're crazy' or 'That's cheesy"'or 'What do you think of this?'

我想有些人足够聪明,可以凭一己之力变得聪明,从不怀疑任何事情,并想出绝妙的点子。但我认为和别人争论是件好事,让他们说,‘那太糟糕了’或‘你疯了’或‘那太俗了’或‘你觉得这个怎么样?’

Well I think that you have to be open and honest in order to learn from your mistakes and be able to correct them in the future to understand what would happen to take things off course. And if we don't address these issues openly and honestly then we don't learn.

我认为你必须开放和诚实,以便从错误中吸取教训,并能够在未来纠正错误,以了解会发生什么事情使事情偏离轨道。如果我们不开诚布公地解决这些问题,我们就不会吸取教训。

We love great melodies and great songs that have great hooks and melodies, so we start a little bit more on that side as opposed to other people that start more lyric-based. Sometimes we'll do it the other way.

我们喜欢美妙的旋律,喜欢有美妙旋律的歌曲,所以我们会从这方面开始,而不是像其他人那样以歌词为基础。有时我们会用另一种方法。

I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That's like a free compliment and you don't even gotta be smart to notice it.

我希望我的名字是布莱恩,因为有时人们会拼错我的名字,叫我布莱恩。这就像免费的赞美,你甚至不需要聪明地去注意它。

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

我认为,政治不过是一门科学,它沿着对自身最有益和最方便的道路,有序地推动社会进步。

I am opposed to any individual taxes until we eliminate all of the unconstitutional agencies, and I suspect we wouldn't need a tax after that.

我反对任何个人税收,除非我们废除所有违宪的机构,我怀疑在那之后我们就不需要征税了。

There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.

没有什么比一首未完成的歌曲更能让你意识到人类存在的即兴创作。或者一本旧通讯录。

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

商学院奖励困难复杂的行为多于简单的行为,但简单的行为更有效。

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

没有比这更令人厌恶的景象出现在一个老人身上,他不愿离开这个已经离开他的世界。

No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.

没有一件事能在我们心中唤醒一个陌生人,我们从来没有怀疑过他的存在。生活就是慢慢地出生。

I sang in the choir for years, even though my family belonged to another church.

我在唱诗班里唱了很多年,尽管我的家庭属于另一个教堂。

Sometimes it seems like everything’s changing; my whole world is rearranging.

有时似乎一切都在改变;我的整个世界都在重新安排。

Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.

潜逃-以一种神秘的方式移动,通常带有另一种性质。

I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.

我认为艺术家的责任比人们意识到的要复杂得多。

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

不理性地持有真理可能比理性的错误更有害。

Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.

诗歌至少是一种优雅,至多是一种启示。

Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.

也许每个人都可以超越自己的能力去生活。

Jail is much easier on people who have nothing.

对于一无所有的人来说,坐牢要容易得多。

Writing is an incessant process of discovery.

写作是一个不断发现的过程。

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

美德本身并无恶意中伤之嫌。

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

恐惧跟随着犯罪,是对犯罪的惩罚。