A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.

  • -- Ernest Hemingway 欧内斯特·海明威

严肃的作家不应与严肃的作家混为一谈。一个严肃的作家可能是一只鹰,一只秃鹰,甚至一只罂粟花,但一个严肃的作家总是一只血腥的猫头鹰。

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The last motive in the world for acquiring vocabulary should be to impress. Words should be acquired because we urgently need them -- to convey, to reach, to express something within us, and to understand others.

学习词汇的最后一个动机应该是给人留下深刻印象。语言是需要后天习得的,因为我们迫切需要它们——去传达,去触及,去表达我们内心的某种东西,去理解他人。

If you look at all the serious scientists in the world, there is no big disagreement on the basics of this... it would be absolute lunacy to act as if climate change is not occurring.

如果你看看世界上所有严肃认真的科学家,你就会发现他们在这个问题的基础上并没有很大的分歧。如果装作气候变化没有发生,那将是绝对愚蠢的。

One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer.

有一件事我可以告诉你,我不是一个有条理的作家。

Yellow usually means it's not that serious.

黄色通常表示病情没有那么严重。