The big biography of Lincoln necessarily had to do so much with his political career, his ambitions, his accomplishments in public, with less time to spend on his private life, his inner life, and I thought this might be a way of getting at that.

  • -- David Herbert Donald 大卫赫伯特唐纳德

林肯的大传记必然与他的政治生涯,他的抱负,他在公共场合的成就有很大的关系,很少有时间花在他的私人生活,他的内心生活上,我想这可能是一种方法。

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The only way you can have it all is by delegating all the running of the home to other people - which I don't ever want to do... So you do it yourself, and it takes time and energy and effort. And if you give it the time, it's profoundly enjoyable.

你能拥有这一切的唯一方法就是把家里所有的事务都委托给别人——我从来不想这么做……所以你自己做,这需要时间、精力和努力。如果你给它时间,它是非常愉快的。

Hospitals are places that you have to stay in for a long time, even if you are a visitor. Time doesn't seem to pass in the same way in hospitals as it does in other places. Time seems to almost not exist in the same way as it does in other places.

医院是你必须呆很长时间的地方,即使你是访客。在医院里,时间的流逝方式似乎与其他地方不同。时间似乎几乎不像在其他地方一样以同样的方式存在。

Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems.

尽管作为一名水手,我鄙视政治——因为我热爱我的水手生活,直到今天仍然热爱它——但环境迫使我对政治问题采取明确的态度。

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

我不能给你写一个关于政治的字,因为你是一个女人。