When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.

  • -- Chinua Achebe 奇努阿切贝

当我开始上学并学习阅读时,我遇到了其他人和其他国家的故事。

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I had these fangs because I had jaundice when I was a kid and I was put on so many antibiotics that my teeth rotted. They had to cut them out. So I never had milk teeth. That was tough, you know, being in school having photos taken while I was pretending I had teeth. It was hideous.

我有这些尖牙是因为我小时候患了黄疸,吃了太多抗生素,牙齿都烂了。他们不得不把它们剪掉。所以我从来没有乳牙。你知道,当我在学校里假装自己有牙齿的时候拍照,那是很难受的。这是可怕的。

You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it.

你们花费了许多生命和财富,为许多不愿接受自由的国家带来了自由。在这里,你们有一个自己赢得胜利的民族,他们只需要帮助就能保护它。

I also have that desire to blurt stuff out, but I've learned I can't do that. Not when you realise the whole world is listening. That's why perhaps I look so uncomfortable in interviews at times.

我也有想要脱口而出的欲望,但我知道我不能那样做。当你意识到全世界都在倾听时,你就不会这么想了。这就是为什么有时我在面试中看起来那么不自在。

I'm a father of four so whenever I'm not working my kids have their different sports, or plays, or school performances, so I don't do a whole lot of other stuff besides being a dad.

我是四个孩子的父亲,所以每当我不工作的时候,我的孩子们就会有不同的运动、戏剧或学校表演,所以除了做父亲,我不会做很多其他事情。

I learned easily and had time to follow my inclination for sports (light athletics and skiing) and chemistry, which I taught myself by reading all textbooks I could get.

我学得很轻松,有时间跟随自己对运动(轻型运动和滑雪)和化学的爱好,我通过阅读所有能找到的教科书自学。

The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and inventors generally don't have PhDs.

博士制度是学术势利的真正根源。拥有博士学位的人认为自己是祭司,而发明家通常没有博士学位。