Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.

  • -- Renata Adler 雷纳塔·阿德勒

懒惰的人往往是无聊的,无聊的人,除非他们睡得多,是残酷的。在我们这个时代,无聊和残酷是人们最关心的事情,这并非偶然。

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No one really knows what I'm really like, and you won't unless you spend a day with me, or if you're my friend. No one ever knows what anyone is really like. Read all the interviews you want on them, it's just the media talking and you can't really get to know someone that way, obviously.

没有人知道我的真实情况,除非你和我共度一天,或者你是我的朋友,否则你不会知道的。没有人知道一个人到底是什么样的。阅读所有你想要的关于他们的采访,这只是媒体的谈话,显然你不能真正通过这种方式了解一个人。

When gasoline and rubber are rationed, electric power and transport facilities are becoming increasingly scarce, and manpower shortages are developing, it is difficult for people to understand their increased use for other than the most vital needs of war.

当汽油和橡胶实行配给,电力和运输设施日益稀少,人力短缺日益严重时,人们很难理解,除了战争最重要的需要之外,汽油和橡胶越来越多地用于其他用途。

Cold in the earth---and the deep snow piled above thee, Far, far, removed, cold in the dreary grave! Have I forgot, my only Love, to love thee, Severed at last by Time’s all-serving wave?

大地是寒冷的——你头顶上堆积着厚厚的积雪,离你那么远,那么远,那么远,在凄凉的坟墓里是寒冷的!难道我忘了,我唯一的爱,去爱你吗?

People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life - to learn something is a joy to me.

人们不断地要求生活的乐趣。对我来说,我在生活的艰苦和残酷的战斗中找到了生活的乐趣——学习对我来说是一种乐趣。

It was a terrible time through which I was living. The war raged about us, and nobody knew whether or not he would be alive the next week.

那是我生活的一段可怕的时期。战争在我们周围肆虐,没有人知道他下周是否还活着。

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.

有道德的人常常为他们所受的约束和他们所激发的无聊而报复自己。

A good story often increases the salability of an item without increasing its actual value.

一个好的故事通常会在不增加商品实际价值的情况下提高商品的销售能力。

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

一个房子不是一个家,除非它包括食物和火,为精神和身体。

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

所有残忍的人都把自己描述成坦率的典范。

I only answer to two people, myself and God.

我只对两个人负责,我自己和上帝。

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

无聊毕竟是一种批评。

Do what you love and do it often.

做你喜欢做的事,经常做。