As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the average person can understand.

  • -- Ethel Merman 艾索尔·摩曼

就戏剧而言,编剧写出普通人能理解的东西被认为是过时了。

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People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

人们不希望自己的生活被改变。没有人希望自己的问题得到解决。他们的戏剧。他们的干扰。他们的故事解决。他们的脏乱打扫干净了。因为他们还剩下什么?只是一个可怕的未知。

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, see to the (be?) worthy of being known.

与其担心自己没有办公室,不如考虑一下自己是否适合这个职位。与其担心自己不为人所知,不如让自己值得被人所知。

People tend to think of Brisbane as a sleepy, sub-topical place. I don't know. It's like Baltimore or something. I don't know. You would hear the family dramas going on behind closed doors.

人们往往认为布里斯班是一个令人昏昏欲睡的地方。我不知道。就像巴尔的摩之类的地方。我不知道。你会听到家庭闹剧在幕后上演。

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

真理总是与自身和谐一致的,它并不主要关心揭示正义与恶行之间的关系。