To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

  • -- William James 威廉·詹姆斯

研究异常是理解正常的最好方法。

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So one thing that I want to do is to make people realize that astronauts in general are very normal people. They are down to Earth, so to speak. I know it sounds contradictive, but we are very normal people. We are very normal people with a fantastic privilege and opportunity to do something that is extraordinary.

所以我想做的一件事就是让人们意识到宇航员通常都是非常正常的人。可以说,他们是脚踏实地的。我知道这听起来有些矛盾,但我们都是非常正常的人。我们都是非常普通的人,拥有非凡的特权和机会去做一些不寻常的事情。

If you're a kid who is always on the outside hoping to be on the inside, you're watching a lot. You're trying to figure out how to become a normal person in a society that considers you weird.

如果你是一个总是在外面想要在里面的孩子,你在看很多东西。你在想如何在一个认为你很奇怪的社会里成为一个正常的人。

On the principle laid down by Gilbert and Sullivan that when everybody is somebody, nobody is anybody; if everybody is abnormal, we don’t need to worry about anybody.

吉尔伯特和沙利文提出的原则是,当每个人都是重要人物时,没有人是任何人;如果每个人都不正常,我们不需要担心任何人。

If you ever felt alone, come to my cottage and drink the whole bottle; it is not so bad to be abnormal for a while.

如果你感到孤独,到我的小屋来,喝下整瓶酒;一段时间的不正常并没有那么糟糕。