At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.

  • -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning 伊丽莎白·巴雷特·布朗宁

在痛苦的时刻,当写作是不可能的,阅读是不够的,语法和字典是很好的分散注意力。

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During Breaking The Waves, I was on my own in a hotel room. I think I would have been impossible to live with. When you go home, you have to pretend to be the person you are at home.

在破浪的时候,我一个人在旅馆的房间里。我想我是不可能与之共存的。当你回家的时候,你必须假装是你在家里的那个人。

If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.

如果时间就是金钱,那么节约时间似乎是合乎道德的,尤其是节省自己的时间,而为他人着想可以为这种节俭开脱。一个是直接的。

Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world.

构成赋予渗透世界的自然声音以适当的意义。

Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.

航空证明,只要有决心,我们就有能力实现不可能的目标。

I can't really work on more than one thing at a time.

我一次只能做一件事。

I don't listen to much modern composition.

我不怎么听现代作曲。