That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.

  • -- Elizabeth Bowen 伊丽莎白·鲍恩

这也是女性结婚的部分原因——为了保持处于事物中心的假象。

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My problem is that the audience is more fiction-literate than ever. In Shakespeare's day, you probably expected to see a play once or twice in your life; today you experience four or five different kinds of fiction every day. So staying ahead of the audience is impossible.

我的问题是,观众比以往任何时候都更懂小说。在莎士比亚的时代,你可能希望一生中看一两次戏剧;今天,你每天都会经历四五种不同的小说。所以要想在观众面前保持领先是不可能的。

I mention my age because I find people in this country - women, not men, of course - women are so troubled by their age. There's a culture of youth, and it's a phony culture.

我提到我的年龄,是因为我发现这个国家的人们——当然是女性,而不是男性——女性对自己的年龄感到非常烦恼。有一种年轻人的文化,这是一种虚假的文化。

We don't separate out men and women working together in corporations.

我们不把在公司里一起工作的男性和女性分开。

The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.

科幻小说的方法是解剖和重构。