For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.

  • -- Wernher von Braun 沃纳·冯·布劳恩

为了确认我的身份,我没有像大多数路德教男孩那样,得到一块手表和我的第一条长裤。我有一个望远镜。我妈妈认为这是最好的礼物。

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An office boy in London was the lowest of the low. The office boy was the tea boy. He would be the dog's body: It means someone who would do anything at all. I was quite prepared for that and enjoyed it.

伦敦的一个勤杂工是最低等的。勤杂工就是茶水工。他会是狗的身体:意思是什么都愿意做的人。我对此早有准备,也很享受。

I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature.

我从一个有艺术天赋的男孩开始……作为一个视觉艺术家…我想这就是我现在的样子,在我十几岁的时候,我开始阅读严肃的文学作品。

You can't teach an ear, you can't teach talent, but you can teach people who have those things not to just fly by the seat of their pants.

你不能教一只耳朵,你不能教天赋,但是你可以教那些有天赋的人不要光凭直觉行事。

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.

我们用望远镜看过去,用显微镜看现在。因此,目前的情况显然是极其恶劣的。

I have a fine lot of telescopes. I have one with which I can see the Mountains in the Moon.

我有很多很好的望远镜。我有一个可以看到月亮上的山。

I never go sexy. I'm more into a well-made pair of pants and a good shoe.

我从来不性感。我更喜欢做工好的裤子和鞋子。