Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.

-- Tobias Wolff 托比亚斯·沃尔夫

在短篇小说中，每一件事都要有分量，才能真正成为头等大事。

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None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.

没有一个人仅仅靠自己的努力就能取得今天的成就。我们来到这里是因为有人——一位家长，一位老师，一位常春藤盟校的密友，或者几个修女——弯下腰来帮我们捡起了靴子。

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Like the Spitfire it was immensely strong: a pilot had no need to fear the danger of pulling the wings off, no matter how desperate the situation became.

就像喷火器一样，它非常强大:无论情况多么危急，飞行员都不必担心机翼被扯掉的危险。

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I write short stories, and I wrote a play.

我写短篇小说，还写剧本。

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Life is too short to work so hard.

人生苦短，何必如此努力。

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