A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.

  • -- Ralph Waldo Emerson 拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生

人是一种方法,一种渐进的安排;一个选择的原则,收集他喜欢他;不论走到哪里,都是公众。

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I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else.

我真的没有过那种激动人心的生活。有很多事情我希望我能做,而不是坐在那里抱怨有一个无聊的生活。所以我很喜欢编造。我宁愿讲一个关于别人的故事。

Ever since I began to compose, I have remained true to my starting principle: not to write a page because no matter what public, or what pretty girl wanted it to be thus or thus; but to write solely as I myself thought best, and as it gave me pleasure.

自从我开始写作,我就一直坚持着我最初的原则:不写一页,因为无论什么公众,或什么漂亮女孩想要这样或那样;而是按照我自己认为最好的方式,按照它给我带来的快乐来写作。

As far as arrangements after the basic track is cut, if I'm writing a horn arrangement or playing strings, I might arrange that, plan that out. Other times, I'll just sit and roll tape.

在基本音轨被剪掉之后,如果我在写喇叭的编曲或者演奏弦乐,我可能会安排,计划好。其他时候,我只是坐着卷磁带。

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

现代艺术史也是一部艺术受众逐步流失的历史。艺术越来越受到艺术家的关注和公众的困惑。

The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements.

否定文学现代性的批评方法将出现,甚至在某些方面,将成为最现代的批评运动。

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.

没有人是艺术家,除非他在画之前就把画记在脑子里,并且对自己的方法和构图有信心。

Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war.

只有严于律己的人才能长期忍受现代战争的惊人速度。

We want them to stop the current arrangement, share it with the public and hold hearings.

我们希望他们停止目前的安排,与公众分享,并举行听证会。

I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing.

我认为这是一个原则的生活规则,不太沉迷于任何一件事。

Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.

我们的文化依赖于咖啡和汽油,前者的味道往往与后者相似。

The injury that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance.

我们对一个人所造成的伤害必须是这样的,我们不必害怕他的报复。

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

教育是一个逐步发现自己无知的过程。