True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

  • -- Kurt Vonnegut 库尔特·冯内古特

真正的恐惧是某天早上醒来发现你的高中班级正在管理这个国家。

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It's much more difficult to work on a broad subject than on a specific one, because even if it's hard to find the information, if you look hard enough for something specific you will find it, and you will discover things that you wouldn't have thought of before.

研究一个宽泛的主题要比研究一个具体的主题困难得多,因为即使很难找到信息,如果你足够努力去寻找某个具体的东西,你会找到它,你会发现一些你以前从未想过的东西。

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

我可以原谅,但我不能忘记,只是另一种说法,我不会原谅。宽恕应该像一张作废的便条——撕成两半,烧掉,这样它就永远不会对一个人显现出来。

I was running to catch a train when one of my teachers saw me. He thought I was fast, time me, and later gave me my first instructions in sprinting. I happened to be at the right place at the right time.

我正跑着去赶火车,这时我的一位老师看见了我。他认为我跑得很快,给我计时,后来给了我第一次短跑的指导。我碰巧在对的时间出现在对的地点。

I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive.

我担心,特别是随着千年的临近,伪科学和迷信似乎会一年比一年更具吸引力,非理性的警笛声会更响亮,更有吸引力。

This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process.

这种对中产阶级的侵蚀正在世界各地发生。贫富差距的扩大总是伴随着这样一个过程。

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.

昨天对我国进行的蓄意和致命袭击不仅仅是恐怖行为。这些都是战争行为。

If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run.

如果你想取悦所有人,那么你就不会做出任何真正属于你的东西,从长远来看,我不这么认为。

The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.

音乐真正的美在于它把人们联系在一起。它承载着一个信息,而我们,音乐家,就是这个信息的传递者。

I'd skip school regularly to see movies - even in the morning, in the small Parisian theaters that opened early.

我经常逃课去看电影——即使是在早上,在巴黎那些很早就开始营业的小剧院里。

Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless with yours.

不要轻率对待别人的心,不要容忍那些轻率对待你的心的人。

I wake up laughing. Yes, I wake up in the morning and there I am just laughing my head off.

我笑着醒来。是的,我早上醒来的时候发现自己笑得前仰后合。

No one wants to set out to be a hero, and discover that they've been a villain all along.

没有人想一开始就成为英雄,却发现自己一直是个恶棍。

The war on terror is a fight that we did not start, but it is one that we shall finish.

反恐战争是一场我们没有发动的战争,但我们将完成它。

There are two main drivers of asset class returns - inflation and growth.

资产类别回报率有两个主要驱动因素——通胀和增长。

When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around.

当世界末日来临,你要充分利用身边的一切。

I stay up late every night, and realize it's a bad idea every morning.

我每天晚上都熬夜,每天早上都意识到这是个坏主意。

The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much.

获得更多的真正方法,是永远不要渴望获得太多。

I had great friends, support and teaching at Wake Forest.

我在维克森林大学有很好的朋友、支持和教学。

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

年龄是为成熟付出的高昂代价。

I never liked group work in school.

我在学校从不喜欢集体作业。