What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with events; the Sheriff's officer, or whatever.

  • -- Ian Hamilton Finlay 伊恩·汉密尔顿·芬利

你用的不是这里也不是那里,你用的是文字,你用的是石头和树木,你用的是事件;警长什么的。

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Although I had resigned my commission as an officer two years before, I immediately left Switzerland, accompanied by my wife, in order to report for duty. As it happened, a wire reached me a day later calling me to the colors.

虽然我在两年前辞去了军官职务,但我立即在妻子的陪同下离开瑞士去报到。碰巧,一天后,我接到了一根电线,它叫我去找颜色。

It is still true that it is easier to compose a poem in the form of a manual for adjusting a VCR than it is to write a piece using just tuning as a symphony.

确实,以调整录像机的手册的形式写一首诗要比仅仅把调弦当作交响乐来写一首诗容易得多。

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

任何士官对新兵来说都是敌人,任何校长对学生来说都是敌人,如果他们是自由的,那么他们就是敌人。

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

一张真实的照片不需要解释,也不可能用文字来表达。

All my words come back to me in shades of mediocrity.

我所有的话都带着平庸的色彩回到我的脑海。

I can't write, I can't paint, I don't compose.

我不会写字,不会画画,也不会作曲。