People confuse the subject of the joke with the target of the joke, and they're very rarely the same.

  • -- Ricky Gervais 里基·热尔维斯

人们混淆了笑话的主题和笑话的目标,而且他们很少是一样的。

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It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them.

总而言之或总而言之,可能性总是相同的,它们不断地重复着,直到一个不把现实看得比思想更重要的人出现为止。他首先赋予新的可能性以意义和方向,然后唤醒它们。

I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.

我几乎不教。这更像是一群人聚在一起研究一个课题,互相学习。我喜欢这个过程。

A book should have an intellectual shape and a heft that comes with dealing with a primary subject.

一本书应该有一个智力的形状和重量来处理一个主要的主题。

Some people like to do everything always the same thing. That's another way: To do the same thing.

有些人喜欢做每件事总是一样的事情。这是另一种方法:做同样的事情。

You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.

你真的要开始用功了,因为这可不是闹着玩的。

I start with the joke line and write backward.

我从笑话开始,倒着写。