The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

  • -- T. S. Eliot T.S.艾略特

诗人的工作不是寻找新的情感,而是运用普通的情感,把它们编成诗歌,表达那些根本不属于实际情感的情感。

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My biggest thing has always been privacy. With an interview such as this where the questions are about me, I struggle to express myself. I have an immediate answer in my head of what I'd say, but sometimes I feel that it would be too honest. So these wheels of censorship start going around my head.

我最大的事情就是隐私。在这样的面试中,问题都是关于我自己的,我很难表达自己。我对自己想说的话有一个直接的答案,但有时我觉得这太诚实了。所以这些审查的车轮开始绕着我的脑袋转。

The thing about kids is that they express emotion. They don't hold back. If they want to cry, they cry, and if they are in a good mood, they're in a good mood.

关于孩子,他们表达情感。他们不会退缩。如果他们想哭,他们就哭,如果他们心情好,他们就心情好。

The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.

目标受众回到概念。这意味着产前护理,安全分娩,产后检查,以及儿科的日常工作。

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.

礼貌是对他人感受的敏感感知。如果你有这种意识,无论你用什么叉子,你都有礼貌。

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

从七、八岁开始,不把自己的真实感受告诉成年人似乎是一种本能。

Most of us women like men, you know; it's just that we find them a constant disappointment.

你知道,我们大多数女人都喜欢男人;只是我们发现他们总是让人失望。

Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else.

不要让男人猜得太久——他肯定会在别的地方找到答案的。

No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.

没有一个人是伟大的诗人,他把自己大量的精力用在别的事情上。

Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.

花似乎是用来安慰普通人的。

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

每一个沐浴在爱河中的人都是诗人。