Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.

  • -- Joseph Addison 约瑟夫·艾迪生

在所有的写作中,没有哪一种写作比幽默作品更容易出错,因为没有哪一种写作比幽默作品更有野心超越他人。

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For me, the greatest obstacles are never on the ice itself. That's the area I excel in. That's where my passion is. I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.

对我来说,最大的障碍从来不是在冰上。这是我擅长的领域。这就是我的激情所在。我认为我们都在努力推动自己,克服我们的斗争。当我们这样做的时候,我们会更好地了解自己。

With Dollars And Cents on the album, we had it as a band jam and I sometimes spend evenings playing with records over the top of things we were working on to see what works.

有了这张专辑上的美元和美分,我们有它作为一个乐队的果酱和我有时花晚上的唱片,在我们正在做的事情之上,看看什么是有效的。

I'm a modern woman in the sense of I take care of myself, I'm fiercely independent, and I'm really ambitious. Yet I have these old-school thoughts in my mind.

我是一个现代女性,我照顾自己,我非常独立,我真的很有野心。然而,我的脑海里却有这些老派的想法。

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

美德超群的人最有权利造反,但他们是所有人中最不愿意造反的。

Jumping to conclusions is like playing with damp gunpowder: both likely to go off in wrong direction.

急于下结论就像摆弄潮湿的火药:两者都可能朝着错误的方向发展。

Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.

只有当你要在书中说出你永远不敢对任何人吐露的事情时,你才会写书。

Sometimes he was weird, sometimes he was Captain Douche bag, but he was always my best friend.

有时他很奇怪,有时他是笨蛋队长,但他一直是我最好的朋友。

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

美丽的年轻人是自然的产物,而美丽的老人是艺术的杰作。

Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure.

在任何场合,任何种类的麻木不仁,都极大地激起了我强烈的不满。

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

有多少种追求幸福的习惯方式,就有多少种美丽。

There are very few innocent sentences in writing.

在写作中很少有无辜的句子。

I'm belligerent rather than ambitious.

我好斗而没有野心。