The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

-- William Faulkner 威廉·福克纳

每一个艺术家的目标都是通过人为的手段来捕捉运动，也就是生命，并把它固定住，这样一百年后，当一个陌生人看到它时，它又动了起来，因为这就是生命。

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When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

当我们诚实地问自己生命中谁对我们最重要时，我们常常发现，是那些人，他们没有给出建议、解决方案或治愈方法，而是选择与我们分享痛苦，用温暖而温柔的手触摸我们的伤口。

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It seems to me, thinking of it, that there must be some universal plan which set in motion the orbiting of the electrons about the nucleus and the slower, more majestic orbit of the galaxies about one another to the very edge of space.

在我看来，考虑到这一点，一定存在某种普遍的计划，使围绕原子核的电子轨道运动起来，也使围绕彼此的星系运行得更慢、更宏伟，直到空间的边缘。

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The wool of a thousand sheep in good pasture at the least ought to yield fifty marks a year, the wool of two thousand one hundred marks, and so forth, counting by thousands.

一千头羊在好草场上的毛，一年至少得五十马克，两千一百马克，依此类推，以千计。

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If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you'll end up saying you hate them just because you're so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions.

如果记者一遍又一遍地问你关于同一个乐队的问题，你最终会说你讨厌他们，因为你受够了被问这么多愚蠢的问题。

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While maintaining our nuclear potential at the proper level, we need to devote more attention to developing the entire range of means of information warfare.

在保持我们的核潜力在适当水平的同时，我们需要更多地注意发展整个范围的信息战手段。

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When people hurt you over and over, think of them as sandpapers. They scratch and hurt you. But later, you'll shining and polished while they end up useless.

当人们一次又一次地伤害你时，把他们当成砂纸。它们会抓伤你。但后来，你会擦亮它们，而它们最终却毫无用处。

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To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural processes.

实际上，征服自然就是消除一切自然障碍和人类准则，用人为的、捏造的等价物来代替自然过程。

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I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The moral character of people is set, fixed until death.

我倾向于认为善与恶是存在的，我们每个人的数量是不可改变的。人的道德品质是固定的，直到死亡。

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The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

琐事定律…简单地说，这意味着在议程任何项目上花费的时间将与所涉数额成反比。

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I carried out my orders until arrested. I had no sense that I was spying, and I ask that this be taken into account in deciding my verdict.

我执行命令直到被捕。我没有意识到我在从事间谍活动，我要求在决定我的判决时考虑到这一点。

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There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.

总有某个特定的时刻，我们会意识到自己的青春已经逝去;但是，多年以后，我们知道那是很久以后的事了。

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The universe is more than mere matter in motion. It and we were brought into being by a Creator who seeks our good.

宇宙不仅仅是运动中的物质。我们是由一位寻求我们的善的造物主创造出来的。

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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

我认为这是维系两个人关系的最高任务:彼此保护对方的孤独。

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You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

如果你放弃所有让你想活到一百岁的东西，你就能活到一百岁。

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One of the joys of being a grandparent is getting to see the world again through the eyes of a child.

作为祖父母的乐趣之一就是能够从孩子的角度重新审视这个世界。

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I judged about a zillion awards this year so I've been reading a lot of books that just came out.

我今年评审了无数的奖项，所以我读了很多刚出版的书。

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I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.

我渴望捕捉一切展现在我面前的美，这种渴望终于得到了满足。

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That is, an artist who creates lots of work probably experiences prolific days and slower days.

也就是说，一个创作了大量作品的艺术家可能会经历多产的日子和缓慢的日子。

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Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

凡灵都造自己的房屋，我们可以凭房屋猜测居民。

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I think that monogamy is artificial. I do not think it's something that comes naturally to us.

我认为一夫一妻制是人为的。我不认为这是我们与生俱来的。

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Though, since the first record, I've dramatically changed my expectations for our records.

不过，自从第一张唱片问世以来，我对我们唱片的期望发生了巨大的变化。

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I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.

我认为括号是迄今为止非商业信函中最重要的部分。

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A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

目标并不总是要达到的，它往往只是作为一个目标。

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Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

美术是人的手、头和心相结合的艺术。

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything the mind could invent...

生活比头脑所能想象的任何事物都要陌生得多……

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Since Sven Goran Eriksson took over, England have been fantastic.

自从埃里克森接手以来，英格兰一直都很出色。

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Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.

当我们停止思考时，我们的观点就会固定下来。

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Better to live one year as a tiger, than a hundred as a sheep.

活一年如虎，活一百年如羊。

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I just want to be written about as a normal artist.

我只是想作为一个普通的艺术家被写出来。

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A true gentleman won't judge by looks but by heart.

真正的绅士不会以貌取人，而是以身作则。

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The man in the street is always a stranger.

街上的那个人总是一个陌生人。

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Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.

每一场改革运动都有一帮疯子。

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Aim higher in case you fall short.

瞄准更高的目标，以防你达不到目标。

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Everything looks good on skinny.

一切看起来都很瘦。

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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

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