Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

  • -- Thomas Carlyle 托马斯·卡莱尔

写作是一种可怕的劳动,但不像懒惰那么可怕。

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We always feel pretty creative as far as writing songs. We write them together; we just get in a room, or on occasion in Flea's garage. We just sort of improvise, like jazz musicians.

我们总是觉得写歌很有创意。我们一起写;我们只是进入一个房间,或者偶尔进入跳蚤的车库。我们只是即兴创作,就像爵士音乐家一样。

We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on.

我们自称是一个自由的国家,然而我们却让自己在酒店门口被一个男人告知我们可以乘坐什么出租车,不可以乘坐什么出租车,仅仅因为他穿了一件鼓少校的制服。

The job of the writer isn't to answer questions. The job of the writer is to ask the questions for which there are no answers.

作者的工作不是回答问题。作者的工作就是问那些没有答案的问题。

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

修院-妇女的退休的地方,谁希望有闲暇沉思的罪恶的懒惰。

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

烦恼源于懒惰,烦恼源于不必要的安逸。

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

思想是智力的劳动,幻想是其乐趣。

More than friendship, yet less than a relationship.

比友谊多,但比关系少。

Industry cannot flourish if labor languish.

如果劳动减少,工业就不会兴旺。