We are often too late with our brilliance. We are on time delay. The only instant gratification comes in the form of potato chips. The rest will find us by surprise somewhere down the road maybe as we sleep and dream of other things.

  • -- Richard Schiff 理查德·希夫

我们的聪明才智往往来得太晚。我们准时到达。唯一的即时满足感来自于薯片。其余的人会在我们睡觉和做其他梦的时候,在路上某个地方意外地发现我们。

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If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it.

如果一种商品毫无用处,换句话说,如果它对我们的满足感毫无帮助,那么它就没有可交换的价值,无论它有多么稀缺,也无论购买它需要多少劳动力。

We can take some gratification at having come a certain distance in just a few thousand years of our existence as language users, but it should be a deeper satisfaction, even an exhilaration, to recognize that we have such a distance still to go.

作为语言使用者,我们在短短几千年的时间里走到了一定的距离,我们可以从中得到一些满足,但认识到我们还有这么一段距离要走,应该是一种更深层次的满足,甚至是一种兴奋。

I feel if some kid has sat down and felt I'm important enough to write two pages of words to and take up a lot of his valuable time, then he deserves a few words back, or even a phone call as I have done on a few occasions.

我觉得,如果某个孩子坐下来,觉得我足够重要,可以写两页纸的东西给他,占用他很多宝贵的时间,那么他应该得到几句话的回应,甚至像我曾经做过的几次那样,给他打个电话。

People live their lives like something’s chasing them and by the time you get to the end, you look back and wonder if it was all worth it.

人们的生活就像有什么东西在追着他们,当你走到最后的时候,你回头看,会想这一切是否值得。

I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time.

我把速溶咖啡放进微波炉里,差点让时光倒流。

Books had instant replay long before televised sports.

早在电视转播体育比赛之前,书籍就有即时重播。