I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a preconception of what that person should say and I would put my words in his mouth.

  • -- Isabel Allende 伊莎贝尔·阿连德

我是个很糟糕的记者。糟透了。我会发明一切。如果我做一个采访,我对那个人应该说什么有一个先入之见,我会把我的话放进他的嘴里。

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It is harder to lie in an interview. A good interview - and it can be polite - is not a one way street like a candidate controlled ad. An interview is not programmed by the candidate and so the candidate can't be exactly sure what will be asked.

在面试中说谎更难。一个好的面试——它可以是礼貌的——不像一个候选人控制的广告那样是单向的。面试并不是由应聘者设计的,所以他不能确定面试官会问些什么。

It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.

认为武装护卫会给记者提供任何保护是完全错误的,相反,被武装人员包围的记者只会把自己变成目标,处于更危险的境地。

Speculators get a bad rap. In the popular imagination they're greedy, heedless, and amoral, adept at price manipulations and dirty tricks. In reality, they often play a key role in making markets run smoothly.

投机者名声不好。在大众的想象中,他们贪婪、粗心、不道德,擅长操纵价格和肮脏的伎俩。在现实中,它们常常在使市场平稳运行方面发挥关键作用。

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

我们应该为年老做好准备,这样,这个世界就不会迫切需要从对下一个世界的冥想中吸收老年。看到老态龙钟的瘦削的手在坟墓上做棺材是可怕的。

There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language or style and become real sharks on somebody else's language.

有很多我称之为休闲爵士乐的活动,人们走出去学习一种特定的语言或风格,然后在别人的语言上变成真正的鲨鱼。

After this interview, I'm going to immigration to try to sort out my Green Card, just like any other normal person.

面试结束后,我要像其他正常人一样,到移民局去办理我的绿卡。

I'm not saying my wife's a bad cook, but she uses a smoke alarm as a timer.

我并不是说我妻子厨艺很差,但是她用烟雾报警器来计时。

The person that said winning isn't everything, never won anything.

说胜利不是一切的人,从来没有赢得过任何东西。

I am expressing myself truthfully. That is an important thing.

我在真实地表达自己。这很重要。

I believe that every person is born with talent.

我相信每个人都有天赋。