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Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.

  • -- Bennett Cerf 贝内特·瑟夫

中年是你的老同学头发灰白，满脸皱纹，秃顶，他们认不出你来的时候。

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We are now at the point where we must decide whether we are to honour the concept of a plural society which gains strength through diversity, or whether we are to have bitter fragmentation that will result in perpetual tension and strife.

我们现在必须作出决定，我们是要尊重通过多样化获得力量的多元社会的概念，还是要有痛苦的分裂，从而导致永久的紧张和冲突。

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We had, after all, no other recourse to protect ourselves, no other document, let's say, than the Monroe Doctrine. So that could be cited as a cause for intervention if and when it might become necessary.

毕竟，我们没有别的办法来保护自己，没有别的文件，比如说，除了门罗主义。因此，如果有必要的话，这可以作为干预的理由。

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I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.

有一次我去参加一个聚会，每个人都把车钥匙扔到屋子中间。我不知道谁买了我的摩托车，但我开那辆标致好多年了。

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Many of the Iroquois and Huron houses were of similar construction, the partitions being at the sides only, leaving a wide passage down the middle of the house.

许多易洛魁人和休伦人的房屋都是类似的结构，隔墙只在房子的两边，在房子的中间留下一条宽阔的通道。

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The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.

小说的第一个谎言是作者给混乱的生活安排了秩序:时间顺序，或者作者选择的任何顺序。

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Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?

陌生人，如果你路过遇见我，想和我说话，为什么不跟我说话呢?我为什么不跟你说话呢?

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There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white.

有无限的灰色阴影。写作常常显得那么黑白分明。

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One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print.

一个作家每天都会死一点，其中之一就是他的书绝版。

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You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.

你不能以一种与你看待自己不一致的方式行事。

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I don't understand why everyone has to wear black, grey and white.

我不明白为什么每个人都要穿黑色、灰色和白色的衣服。

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