Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything.

  • -- Raymond Queneau 雷蒙·格诺

许多小说家把定义明确、精确的人物置于重要的历史背景中,而不管发生什么事,历史背景都是次要的。

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If someone is being absolutely critical of me as a driver, what could they say? I am also critical of myself to try and keep things in perspective. That is very important.

如果有人对我这个司机非常挑剔,他们会怎么说?我对自己也很挑剔,试图正确看待事情。这非常重要。

If I sit in my own place of patience what I need flows to me... without pain. From this I understand that what I want also wants me is looking for me and attracting me.

如果我耐心地坐在自己的位置上,我所需要的就会流向我……没有痛苦。从这里我明白了,我想要的,也是我想要的,就是寻找我,吸引我。

People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found that immensely valuable.

来自全国各地的人们写信给我,问我,有时甚至告诉我,他们认为桂冠诗人应该做什么。我发现这非常有价值。

Sometimes you could tell what it was about - it was interesting - and sometimes it was quite obvious that someone had lost it and it was on an endless loop.

有时你能说出它是关于什么的——它很有趣——有时很明显,有人把它弄丢了,它就这样无休止地循环着。

Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.

文明的存在,就是为了没有群众,只有足够警觉的人,永远不会构成群众。

I guess there's a vulnerability in seeing a female character trying to get out of something really drastic.

我想看到一个女性角色试图摆脱一些非常激烈的事情是有弱点的。

The war imbued my tin soldiers with quite a new interest. It was impossible to have boxes enough of them.

战争使我的锡兵们产生了一种新的兴趣。不可能有足够多的箱子。

Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems.

只要这些事实与这些问题的解决有关,经验主义的兴趣就在于这些事实。

I've had confidence in myself all along. It was just a matter of getting the pieces back in place.

我一直对自己有信心。这只是把碎片放回原位的问题。

The most important thing we stressed is that we want those kids to be productive citizens.

我们强调的最重要的一点是,我们希望这些孩子成为有成效的公民。

The head writer loves that my character is a boor.

主笔喜欢我的角色是个乡巴佬。

I'm very analytical, I'm very precise.

我非常善于分析,非常精确。