I don't know how many lions and leopards I've shot. I've shot two elephants, which was enough - never again. It's a melancholy and moving thing to hunt an elephant. It's like shooting an old man.

  • -- Wilbur Smith 威尔伯·史密斯

我不知道我射过多少狮子和豹子。我已经射杀了两头大象,这就够了——再也不会了。猎象是一件令人伤感和感动的事。这就像射杀一个老人。

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

所有的变化,即使是最渴望的变化,都有其忧郁之处;因为我们留下的是我们自身的一部分;我们必须先死一种生命,才能进入另一种生命。

To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.

悲伤面前低头是愚蠢的;忧郁无益;⊙、思之痛苦不如饮之觉之陡峭。

You see I'm against hunting, in fact I'm a hunt saboteur. I go out the night before and shoot the fox.

你看,我反对打猎,事实上,我是个破坏打猎的人。前一天晚上我出去打狐狸。

But on the other hand, I don't actively seek out stories or hunt them down.

但另一方面,我也不主动去寻找或寻找故事。