Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.

  • -- F. L. Lucas 卢卡斯

除了一些简单的原则外,我认为英语散文的声音和节奏很重要,作家和读者都不应该太相信规则,而应该相信自己的耳朵。

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I'll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I'll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I'm not there, but I'll always come back.

我将永远与苹果保持联系。我希望在我的一生中,我的生命之线和苹果之线能够互相交织,就像织锦一样。也许有几年我不在那里,但我总会回来。

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.

人生如一首乐曲,要用乐感,感情和直觉去谱写,不能只按乐律行事。不过,人们最好了解这些规则,因为在可疑的情况下,这些规则有时会起到指导作用,虽然不是经常如此。

We have to do more than keep media giants from growing larger; they're already too big. We need a new set of rules that will break these huge companies to pieces.

我们要做的不仅仅是阻止媒体巨头变得更大;它们已经太大了。我们需要一套新的规则来打破这些大公司。

Pricing is actually a pretty simple and straight forward thing. Customers will not pay literally a penny more than the true value of the product.

定价实际上是非常简单和直接的事情。顾客不会支付比产品真正价值多一分钱的钱。

Keeping it simple for the consumer is incredibly dire.

为消费者保持简单是非常可怕的。

Few of us get anything without working for it.

我们中很少有人不努力就能得到任何东西。