The issue I highlight in the book is welfare reform.

  • -- Robert Scheer 罗伯特·施尔

我在书中强调的问题是福利改革。

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On the one hand we have got to ask, are there some areas of universal benefits that are no longer affordable? But on the other hand let us look at the issue of dependency where we have trapped people in poverty through the extent of welfare that they have.

一方面,我们必须问,是否有一些领域的全民福利已经无法承受?但另一方面,让我们看看依赖的问题,我们通过人们所享有的福利使他们陷入贫困。

I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams.

我不知道是谁说小说家读别人的小说只是为了弄清楚他们是怎么写的。我相信这是真的。我们对暴露在书页表面的秘密并不满意:我们把书翻了个底朝天,寻找缝合线。

I didn't expect to be doing a whole bunch of Amber Browns. And because it was just one book, and the father had moved away, I didn't realize I was going to have to deal more with shared custody, divorce and all those issues.

我没想到会做这么多琥珀色的棕色。因为只有一本书,而且父亲已经搬走了,我没有意识到我将不得不更多地处理共同监护权、离婚和所有这些问题。

The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.

这个问题已经席卷了几个世纪,迟早要与之斗争的是人民与银行之间的斗争。

I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

我一年要上六所不同的学校。我们靠救济生活,而我妈妈从来没有工作过。

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

读书就相当于用别人的头脑思考,而不是用自己的头脑思考。