Could it be, I wonder, that there is such a thing as a wantologist, someone we can hire to figure out what we want? Have I arrived at some final telling moment in my research on outsourcing intimate parts of our lives, or at the absurdist edge of the market frontier?

  • -- Arlie Russell Hochschild 霍奇柴尔德

我在想,会不会有这样一个人,我们可以雇他来搞清楚我们想要什么?在我对我们生活中亲密部分的外包进行研究时,我是否已经到了最后一个关键时刻,还是已经到了荒谬的市场前沿?

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Thank God I arrived the day before yesterday, the first of the month, at this port of San Diego, truly a fine one, and not without reason called famous.

感谢上帝,我前天,也就是这个月的第一天,来到了圣迭戈的这个港口,这真是一个美丽的港口,并不是无缘无故地被称为著名的港口。

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.

人老了,就像一堆别人寄来的信。我们不再是过去的我们,我们已经到来。

A small venue is so much more intimate and loose. You can actually be more spontaneous, I feel.

一个小的场所要亲密得多,也要宽松得多。我觉得你可以更自然一些。

Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.

亲密关系是文学探索、理解和描述的金矿。