In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.

  • -- Knut Hamsun 汉姆生

人老了,就像一堆别人寄来的信。我们不再是过去的我们,我们已经到来。

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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?

The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand exactly, but wanted to understand more and who were excited by this picture of a world which was not their own.

我收到的关于“玫瑰之名”最有趣的来信来自中西部的人们,他们可能并不完全理解,但想要了解更多,他们对这幅不是他们自己的世界的画面感到兴奋。

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.

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。

There's that old adage about how there's only seven plots in the world and Shakespeare's done them all before.

有句古老的谚语说,世界上只有七个情节,莎士比亚以前都做过。

I wish that society's opinion wouldn't be the worst nightmare of someone with low self-esteem.

我希望社会舆论不会成为自卑者的噩梦。

When you're sent something and read it, either you can see it while you read it, or you can't.

当你收到某样东西并阅读它时,要么你能在阅读时看到它,要么你不能。

The only place I considered home was the boarding school, in Yorkshire, my parents sent me to.

我唯一认为家是寄宿学校,在约克郡,我父母送我去的。

To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

要想飞得和思想一样快,你必须从知道你已经到达开始。

Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.

伟大的建议来自那些比你活得更久的人。

I can do the old hand vibrato just fine, but I like attacking the strings.

我能很好地演奏老式的颤音,但我喜欢打击弦乐器。

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

知识之岛越大,奇迹的海岸线就越长。

I want you to know that someone out there cares.

我想让你知道有人关心你。