As a novelist, I suppose I can say that I'm highly articulate. But I know, as a person, in other ways, I'm not always articulate. I think we are all, from time to time, inarticulate, at some level, about some things.

  • -- Graham Swift 格拉汉姆·史威夫特

作为一个小说家,我想我可以说我的表达能力很强。但我知道,作为一个人,在其他方面,我并不总是能言善辩。我认为,在某种程度上,我们有时,对某些事情都是口齿不清的。

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It's hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.

很难确切地说出是什么参数使得一首歌可以被模仿,而另一首歌则不能,但是如果我能想出一个足够好的点子,我就去做,如果不能,我就得继续。

Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well-being than any other single factor.

在你的生活中留下足够的时间去做一些让你快乐,满足,甚至快乐的事情。这对经济福祉的影响超过任何其他单一因素。

If it was just me and Elvis one on one, which only happened once or twice in the times that I did see him, it was a really comfortable. He was a cool guy. Easy laugh, nice guy.

如果只有我和埃尔维斯一对一,这种事在我见到他的时候只发生过一两次,那真的很舒服。他是个很酷的人。笑得轻松,好人。

The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.

小说家的作用……就是以他的眼光来评价生活。

Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.

乔伊斯是一位诗人,也是一位笨拙的学究。