Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and proceeds to dress in a style that can only be called preposterous.

  • -- Mary Schmich 玛丽·施密奇

每天我们每个人醒来,把手伸进抽屉和壁橱里,拿出当天要穿的衣服,然后开始穿那种只能被称为荒谬的风格。

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I've got a really hard election. If you had a really hard election and it was after Labor Day would you go to North Carolina to a bunch of parties and glad-handing or would you stay home and work as hard as you know how to convince Missourians they should rehire you?

我的选举真的很艰难。如果你有一个非常艰难的选举,而且是在劳动节之后,你会去北卡罗来纳参加一些派对,与人握手,还是会呆在家里,尽你所能地努力工作,说服密苏里人他们应该重新雇用你?

An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.

印第安人用鹿皮做的衣服,背上湿了一百遍,又干又软;他的住处在大雨中,甚至在严冬,也被拆毁了,和当初建的时候一样柔软,一样干净。

I was always a closet lover of acting. My mom was very practical. She never, ever restricted our dreams, always told us we could do or be anything. Then I said, 'Maybe I want to be an actor'. And she said, 'Maybe not that'.

我一直是个暗地里热爱表演的人。我妈妈很实际。她从来没有,从来没有限制我们的梦想,总是告诉我们,我们可以做任何事或成为任何事。然后我说:“也许我想成为一名演员。”她说,“也许不是那样。”

While goals are chosen, a purpose is discovered. Our purpose is something we have been doing all along, and will continue to do, regardless of circumstances, until the day we die.

当目标被选择时,目标就被发现了。我们的目标是我们一直在做的事情,并且会继续做下去,不管环境如何,直到我们死去的那一天。

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.

风格是指作者如何看待自己和他所说的话。当它向前移动时,它的思想在自己周围打转。

Alas! Alas! Life is full of disappointments; as one reaches one ridge there is always another and a higher one beyond which blocks the view.

唉!唉!生活充满了失望;当一个人到达一个山脊时,总会有另一个更高的山脊挡住视线。

What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.

人生的主题是什么——致富?所有那些发家致富的人可能都在围绕着生活的真实主题跳舞。

I have an adult emotional life and an editing system inside me which prevents me from being preposterously stupid.

我有一个成年人的情感生活和一个内在的编辑系统,它阻止我变得愚蠢可笑。

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

人们只把思想作为他们不公正行为的权威,只把言语用来掩盖他们的思想。

His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.

他的风格有一种绝望的欢快,就像一个管弦乐队在一艘正在沉没的船上拼命演奏。

A lot of old guys in movies are like cowboys - they talk like cowboys and they dress like cowboys.

电影里的许多老家伙都像牛仔——他们说话像牛仔,穿着也像牛仔。

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

艺术是大自然的右手。后者只给了我们生命,前者造就了我们人类。

Nobody wakes up in the morning thinking, 'I'm a bad guy.' They think they're the right guy.

没有人会在早上醒来时想,‘我是个坏人。他们认为自己是对的人。

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

中年真正可怕的事情是你会从中成长起来。

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

每个艺术家都把自己的笔触浸入自己的灵魂,把自己的本性融入自己的画中。

I get called an adrenaline junkie every other minute, and I'm just fine with that.

我每隔一分钟就会被称为肾上腺素瘾君子,我对此没有意见。

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.

预算告诉我们什么是我们负担不起的,但它不会阻止我们购买它。

The best comedy, I feel, comes in a drama because it balances each other out.

我觉得最好的喜剧是剧情片,因为它能平衡彼此。

We would change out of costume, then we would read the next days script.

我们会换掉戏服,然后读第二天的剧本。

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

年轻时我们遇到困难。我们年老时遇到困难。

When you have strings, everybody pulls you here and pulls you there.

当你有绳子的时候,每个人都把你拉来拉去。

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

教育的全部目的是把镜子变成窗户。

You Canucks are not the sharpest knives in the drawer.

你们这些笨蛋不是抽屉里最锋利的刀子。

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

每个伟大男人的背后都有一个翻白眼的女人。

My girlfriend's a costume designer in the theater.

我女朋友是剧院的服装设计师。

If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?

如果没有上帝,谁会弹出下一个纸巾?

You don't look at each other on the subway.

你们在地铁里不看对方。

That great dust-heap called 'history'.

那个叫做“历史”的大垃圾堆。

Predictions are preposterous.

预测是荒谬的。

I am a closet metal fan.

我是一个壁橱里的金属风扇。