When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.

  • -- Edith Wharton 伊迪丝·沃顿

当人们要求时间时,总是时间说不。是的,里面还有一个字母,但是说出来并不需要一半的时间。

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There is probably a smell of roasted chestnuts and other good comfortable things all the time, for we are telling Winter Stories - Ghost Stories, or more shame for us - round the Christmas fire; and we have never stirred, except to draw a little nearer to it.

也许总是有烤栗子和其他舒服的好东西的味道,因为我们围着圣诞节的炉火讲冬天的故事——鬼故事,或者更让我们感到羞耻的故事;我们从来没有动过,只是想再靠近一点。

I've lived in many things - boats, caravans, and buses. I've been homeless, I've had no money: everything. But I believe in magic, and having a vision. The tough times made me a warrior. I work hard.

我住过许多东西——船、大篷车和公共汽车。我无家可归,我没有钱,什么都没有。但我相信魔法,相信有远见。艰难的岁月使我成为一名战士。我努力工作。

If the pursuit of peace is both old and new, it is also both complicated and simple. It is complicated, for it has to do with people, and nothing in this universe baffles man as much as man himself.

如果说追求和平是新与旧的,那么它也是复杂与简单的。它是复杂的,因为它与人有关,在这个宇宙中没有什么比人自己更让人困惑。

The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs.

是时候把句子和泥土、阳光和标点符号、雨水和动词混在一起了。