Failing my driving test first time; that was a disappointment on a geological scale.

  • -- Richard Hammond 理查德·哈蒙德

第一次驾驶考试不及格;从地质学的角度来看,这是一个令人失望的结果。

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I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown.

我永远无法提前知道哪本书会给我带来麻烦——有些人在前进的道路上每走一步都会踌躇不前,有些人似乎是在自己写作——但我的孩子们长大了,写作的技巧、寻找时间和精神空间肯定变得更容易了。

From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change.

年复一年,环境变化是递增的,而且往往在我们的生活中几乎没有记录下来,但从进化或地质角度来看,正在发生的是爆炸性的变化。

Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.

爱情的五官可以刺穿一切的心,它用绷带把所爱的人的过错包起来。它有翅膀,飞得很快,也飞走了。

Disappointment or misfortune don't last long among us, the poor; we can't live if we brood on them the whole time.

失望和不幸在我们这些穷人中间不会持续太久;如果我们整天想着他们,我们就活不下去了。

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

我们都必须经历两件事中的一件:纪律的痛苦,悔恨或失望的痛苦。