Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.

  • -- Samuel Butler 塞缪尔巴特勒

字母像酒;声音若坚固,存而不坏。一个人放下书信就像他放下酒窖一样。

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I always knew the importance of it, since I was three or four years old my mother used to feed me wine and water. I grew up with wine as liquid food.

我总是知道它的重要性,因为我三、四岁的时候,我的母亲经常喂我酒和水。我从小就以酒为液态食物。

You write in your letter something which I sometimes feel also: Sometimes I do not know how I shall pull through.

你在信中写的东西,我有时也有同感:有时我不知道该如何度过。

Not wine . . . men intoxicate themselves; not vice . . . men entice themselves.

不是葡萄酒……男人醉自己;不是罪恶…男人吸引自己。

Yeah, I've gotten a few letters from prison.

是的,我收到几封监狱寄来的信。