At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished.

  • -- Ivy Compton Burnett 艾维·康普顿伯内特

在某种程度上,我的小说就像果酱罐一样硬。然后我就知道一切都结束了。

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Certainly we want to protect our children from new and painful experiences that are beyond their emotional comprehension and that intensify anxiety; and to a point we can prevent premature exposure to such experiences.

当然,我们想要保护我们的孩子免受新的痛苦经历的伤害,这些经历超出了他们的情感理解,加剧了他们的焦虑;在某种程度上,我们可以防止过早地接触这些经历。

It may seem a hard task to condemn fellow creatures to long years of confinement in prison, but it is not so hard if they clearly deserve it.

让其他动物在监狱里被囚禁多年似乎是一项艰巨的任务,但如果它们确实罪有应得,那就没那么难了。

I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write.

我很喜欢社交,所以我很难找到独处的地方,但我需要独处来写作。

Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.

只有在制度崩溃的边缘,才能实现规划布局的完善。