The facts are always less than what really happened.

  • -- Nadine Gordimer 纳丁·戈迪默

事实总是比实际发生的少。

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There are about a dozen of these gardens, more or less extensive, according to the business or wealth of the proprietor; but they are generally smaller than the smallest of our London nurseries.

这样的花园大约有十几个,根据业主的生意或财产情况,或多或少有些广阔;但它们一般比我们伦敦最小的托儿所还要小。

Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs.

事实上我不记得我出生的时候,一定是在我昏迷的时候。

No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has.

没有哪位作家能像契诃夫那样,不加强调地塑造出这样可悲的人物。

The things we fear the most have already happened to us.

我们最害怕的事情已经发生在我们身上。