There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives.

  • -- Tom Clancy 汤姆·克兰西

曾经指甲是高科技的。曾经有一段时间,人们必须被告知如何使用电话。技术只是一种工具。人们使用工具来改善他们的生活。

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They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.

他们应该有一条规则:为了成为一名体育记者,你必须在某种程度上参与过这项运动;高中,大学,专科,什么地方。或者,你应该有很长时间的游戏经验。

Our daily life is filled with electronic pianos, ring tones, the disembodied voice giving you your bank balance over the telephone. Even silence can be electronic, courtesy of sound-canceling headphones.

我们的日常生活中充满了电子钢琴、铃声,以及通过电话给你银行存款的那种无形的声音。即使是无声的声音也可以是电子的,这多亏了可以降噪的耳机。

I'm more of a guy's girl. I like having a beer in a bar, and I don't bicker or sit down and do my nails. But I have two sisters and a mother, and we're Latin, so we gossip.

我更像是男人的女人。我喜欢在酒吧里喝啤酒,我不会斗嘴,也不会坐下来修指甲。但我有两个姐妹和一个母亲,我们是拉丁人,所以我们闲聊。

Any real record person knows that the number one most powerful marketing tool when it comes to music is repetition.

任何一个真正的唱片制作人都知道,对于音乐来说,最强大的营销工具就是重复。

Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well.

小孩和老人都有很多空闲时间。这可能就是他们相处得如此融洽的原因。

People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.

人就像钉子一样,一旦失去方向,开始弯曲,就失去了效力。

Whenever I see his finger nails, I thank God I don't have to look at his feet.

每当我看到他的指甲,我感谢上帝,我不用看他的脚。

Who would have thought that the telephone would bring back drawing?

谁会想到电话会把图画带回来呢?