The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

  • -- Robert M. Pirsig 罗伯特·梅纳德·波西格

所有的解决方案都很简单——在你找到它们之后。但只有当你已经知道它们是什么时,它们才会变得简单。

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Normally, what I do for fun is just nothing. I try to just relax. Normally, it involves just relaxing and reading and maybe going out and meeting up with a friend. I live a very simple existence. I would much rather just sit around and listen to a couple of records and read the paper.

正常情况下,我只是为了好玩,什么也不做。我试着放松。通常,这包括放松,阅读,也许出去和朋友见面。我过着非常简单的生活。我宁愿坐在那里听几张唱片,读报纸。

Could it be, I wonder, that there is such a thing as a wantologist, someone we can hire to figure out what we want? Have I arrived at some final telling moment in my research on outsourcing intimate parts of our lives, or at the absurdist edge of the market frontier?

我在想,会不会有这样一个人,我们可以雇他来搞清楚我们想要什么?在我对我们生活中亲密部分的外包进行研究时,我是否已经到了最后一个关键时刻,还是已经到了荒谬的市场前沿?

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

当我们诚实地问自己生命中谁对我们最重要时,我们常常发现,是那些人,他们没有给出建议、解决方案或治愈方法,而是选择与我们分享痛苦,用温暖而温柔的手触摸我们的伤口。

Some solutions are relatively simple and would provide economic benefits: implementing measures to conserve energy, putting a price on carbon through taxes and cap-and-trade and shifting from fossil fuels to clean and renewable energy sources.

一些解决方案相对简单,而且会带来经济效益:实施节约能源的措施,通过税收和限额交易为碳定价,以及从化石燃料转向清洁和可再生能源。

Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.

当然,现在是时候研究语言的意义和事物的本质,并得出一些简单的事实,这些事实不是根据有学问的权威的格言而得到的,而是根据我们对周围发生的事情的仔细观察而得到的。

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

一种身份似乎是通过一个人面对和使用他的经验的方式获得的。

The year hasn't started yet and it's already been the best I've ever had.

这一年还没有开始,这已经是我有过的最好的一年。

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

对于那些你已经敞开心扉的人,永远不要紧闭双唇。