The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'

  • -- Thornton Wilder 桑顿·怀尔德

剧院最适合说:“瞧!这些东西。然而,大多数剧作家都用它来表达:“这种道德真理可以从观看这种行为中学到。”

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To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty.

帮助穷人获得行动和自由的能力对一个人以及他们自己的健康都是至关重要的:他们必须提供一种必要的礼物,只要他们受到贫困的限制,这种礼物就不能提供。

Theatre is expensive to go to. I certainly felt when I was growing up that theatre wasn't for us. Theatre still has that stigma to it. A lot of people feel intimidated and underrepresented in theatre.

去剧院很贵。在我成长的过程中,我确实觉得剧院不适合我们。剧院仍然背负着这种污名。很多人在剧院里感到害怕和缺乏代表性。

I do like things that are not necessarily a reflection of what is considered the right thing by this culture. Somehow, promoting that status quo I find uninteresting.

我喜欢的东西不一定反映出这种文化认为正确的东西。不知何故,我觉得维持现状没什么意思。

When I was a kid I never learned to play. I actually got in bands through watching people play and copying them.

当我还是个孩子的时候,我从来没有学过玩。实际上,我是通过观察人们演奏并模仿他们而加入乐队的。

The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.

寓言的寓意是永恒的。故事的寓意对故事来说是暂时的。

If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.

如果诗人追求道德目标,他的诗歌力量就会减弱。

He who heeds not the lost shoe-nail, will soon lose the horse.

不注意丢失的钉子,很快就会失去马。

I learned from watching and I learned form doing.

我从观察中学习,从实践中学习。

I meddled in things that man must leave alone.

我干预了人类必须不干涉的事情。

I want to do theatre. I love theatre.

我想做戏剧。我喜欢戏剧。