Well I tried to, but I could never write anything that I liked or was worthwhile. I threw it all out and realized that I had to make a serious study- that my tastes were far more advanced than my abilities.

  • -- Elliott Cook Carter Jr 小艾略特·库克·卡特

我试过,但是我从来没有写过我喜欢的或有价值的东西。我把这些都扔掉了,意识到我必须认真学习——我的品味远远超过了我的能力。

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Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown.

做一个有趣的人对你有很多好处。你觉得你不应该对别人太认真。他们不期待你这么做,他们也不想看到你这么做。你没资格严肃,你是个小丑。

We speculate as to what is in store for us. But we not only undergo events, we in part cause them or at least influence their course. We have not only to study them but to act.

我们对即将发生的事进行推测。但我们不仅经历事件,我们在一定程度上造成了它们,或至少影响了它们的进程。我们不仅要研究它们,还要采取行动。

Of all the problems which were open to me for study, typhus was the most urgent and the most unexplored. We knew nothing of the way in which contagion spread.

在我研究的所有问题中,斑疹伤寒是最紧迫的,也是最未被探索的。我们对传染的方式一无所知。

I want to travel. Maybe I'll end up living in Norway, making cakes.

我想去旅行。也许我最终会住在挪威,做蛋糕。

I don't like that I'm my own commodity, that I am what I sell.

我不喜欢我是我自己的商品,我是我所卖的东西。

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

欣赏胡言乱语需要对生活有严肃的兴趣。