An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.

  • -- Mason Cooley 梅森·库利

当一种学术方言的术语难以理解,只能相互引用时,它就被完善了。

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The big shock of my life was Abstract Expressionism - Pollock, de Kooning, those guys. It changed my work. I was an academically trained student, and suddenly you could pour paint, smear it on, broom it on!

我生命中最大的震撼是抽象表现主义——波洛克,德库宁,这些人。它改变了我的工作。我是一个受过学术训练的学生,突然间你就可以把颜料倒出来,涂在上面,然后用扫帚扫上去!

I understand that if you set out to be a celebrity, then you asked for it, but all I wanted to be was an actor.

我明白,如果你一开始就想成为名人,那是你自找的,但我只想成为一名演员。

I don't understand how somebody wouldn't have a sense of humor about themselves.

我不明白为什么有些人对自己没有幽默感。

I don't believe in firing professors. They have academic freedom.

我不赞成解雇教授。他们有学术自由。