Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

  • -- Walt Whitman 沃尔特惠特曼

你是否只从那些仰慕你、温柔待你、支持你的人身上吸取了教训?那些与你争竞,与你争竞的,岂不是给你大教训吗?

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I was a young boy when I met the Surrealists and the Dadaists. I admired them, and that is what they taught me: to admire. Admiration is very important. People who are unable to admire others lose an important part of their soul. My soul developed from a very early age through encounters with admired people.

当我遇到超现实主义者和达达主义者时,我还是个小男孩。我钦佩他们,这就是他们教给我的:要钦佩。赞赏是非常重要的。不能欣赏别人的人失去了灵魂的重要部分。我的灵魂在很小的时候就通过与受人尊敬的人的接触而发展起来。

I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?

我听到了关于宇宙的说法,听到了,听到了几千年;就目前而言,它还算不错——但就这些吗?

This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.

这是文学和读者之间最亲密的关系:他们把文本当作自己的一部分,当作一种财产。

Aside from all that, we recall that antibodies to malaria and other diseases prevalent in Africa show up as HIV-positive on tests.

除此之外,我们还记得,在非洲流行的疟疾和其他疾病的抗体在检测中显示为艾滋病毒阳性。

If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.

如果我们不能消灭这个国家的文学,我们至少可以阻止它从外部进入。

Faith means the purposeful suspension of critical thinking. It's nothing to be admired.

信仰意味着有目的地中止批判性思维。没什么好羡慕的。

Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.

潜逃-以一种神秘的方式移动,通常带有另一种性质。

I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.

我认为,各国不能对种族清洗和种族灭绝袖手旁观。

I was naturally skinny and had braces, so I wasn't a cute model.

我天生就很瘦,戴着牙套,所以我不是一个可爱的模特。

Much learning does not teach understanding.

多学不能使人理解。

It's not the teaching, it's the learning.

不是教学,而是学习。