One gains a double benefit in writing about the past, conjuring up how things might have been, and at the same time acquiring a different perspective on the present.

  • -- Robert Harris 罗伯特·哈里斯

一个人在写过去的时候得到了双重好处,想象事情可能是怎样的,同时对现在有了不同的看法。

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I have walked around the same streets so many times, and then seen a place that had been hidden to me. I now know the sites in a way that makes me think I could have made better use of the connections between place and snowball.

我在同样的街道上走了很多次,然后看到一个地方,我一直隐藏着。我现在对这些地点有了一定的了解,这让我觉得我本可以更好地利用“地点”和“雪球”之间的联系。

I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined.

我真的很幸运,我来到青春期的时候,音乐和政治完全交织在一起。

He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.

把有用的和愉快的结合起来的人会得到每个人的赞同。

To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.

生存是一种我不会绝望地养成的习惯。