You see failed vocabulary in the adult world so often, and it's often because once you reach a certain age you're kind of embarrassed to go look up a word if you don't know what it means.

  • -- Daniel Handler 丹尼尔·汉德勒

在成年人的世界里,你经常会看到失败的词汇,这通常是因为一旦你到了一定的年龄,如果你不知道一个单词的意思,你就会有点不好意思去查它。

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One time I went into a restroom and a girl followed me in. I signed an autograph for her in the sink. It was pretty funny because she was in a guy's restroom and she wasn't embarrassed at all.

有一次我去洗手间,一个女孩跟着我进去。我在水池里给她签了名。这很有趣,因为她在一个男人的洗手间,她一点也不尴尬。

My concern has always been that people who I portray, or the professions that I portray, are not embarrassed by my portrayal of them.

我一直担心的是,我所扮演的人,或者我所扮演的职业,不会因为我对他们的描述而感到尴尬。

In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary.

事实上,英语中的雄辩将不可避免地使用我们词汇中的拉丁元素。

My favorite classes were always dumb nerdy vocabulary.

我最喜欢的课都是些愚蠢的书呆子词汇。