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The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.

  • -- Fisher Ames 费希尔·埃坶斯

这位先生使我想起了一只老母鸡，它在蛋被取走后还坚持要下蛋。

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While that wasn't first and foremost in my mind, you can't get into this without being struck, on one side, by how far we've come, and then the other side, by how little things have changed.

在我看来，这并不是最重要的，你不可能不被我们所取得的进步所震撼，而在另一方面，你也不可能不被这些微小的变化所震撼。

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Obviously, I love to do both contemporary and historical fiction. When a hint of a story grabs me, I try to go with it to see where it will take me whatever the setting.

显然，我既喜欢当代小说，也喜欢历史小说。当一个故事的线索抓住我时，我会试着跟着它走，看看它会把我带到什么地方。

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It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy of life lies in having no goal to reach.

必须记住，生活的悲剧不在于没有达到你的目标。人生的悲剧就在于没有目标。

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We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy tales.

我们可能已经忘记了如何去感受。没有人像我们在童话中听到的那样，教我们如何从此过上幸福的生活。

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Clothes should just be like a beautiful setting for a jewel: They should offset you.

衣服应该就像珠宝的美丽布景:它们应该抵消你。

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Everybody's after a new morning. What do we have to run up and salute tomorrow?

每个人都在追求新的早晨。明天我们要跑上去向谁行礼?

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