There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.

  • -- Willa Sibert Cather 威拉·西伯特·凯瑟

人类的故事只有两三个,而且还在不断地激烈地重复着,仿佛从来没有发生过一样。

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When you're writing about people that are not very well off, you seem to see the kitchen sink. So it was a bit of a sort of cosy phrase that got used a bit too much.

当你写那些不太富裕的人的时候,你似乎看到了厨房里的水槽。所以这是一个使用得有点多的温馨的短语。

I ran and ran and ran every day, and I acquired this sense of determination, this sense of spirit that I would never, never give up, no matter what else happened.

我每天都跑啊跑啊,我获得了这种决心,这种精神,无论发生什么事,我永远不会,永远不会放弃。

Our creative dreams are subject to grudge-holding when we decide that other people somehow have made their dreams real and we have not.

当我们认为别人以某种方式实现了自己的梦想,而我们没有实现时,我们的创造性梦想就会变得不情愿。

Nobody knows what really happened in any historical period. There are some periods where we know more than others, though.

没有人知道在任何历史时期真正发生了什么。不过,有些时期我们比其他人知道得更多。

Most people, including myself, keep repeating the same mistakes.

大多数人,包括我自己,都在重复同样的错误。