I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.

  • -- Yann Martel 扬·马泰尔

我喜欢用动物,因为它们有助于消除读者的怀疑。我们对牙医有一些想法。我们对犀牛牙医没有太多想法。

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I go and see anything that's visually new, any technology that's about picture-making. The technology won't make the pictures different, but someone using it will.

我去看任何视觉上新颖的东西,任何关于摄影的技术。技术不会让照片变得不同,但有人会用它。

It is incumbent upon all of us to build communities with the educational opportunities and support systems in place to help our youth become successful adults.

我们所有人都有责任建立具有适当教育机会和支持系统的社区,帮助我们的青年成为成功的成年人。

Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.

任何在使用电脑时忘记时间的人都知道梦想的倾向、实现梦想的冲动和错过午餐的倾向。

The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.

对新想法的最大障碍是始终保持正确。

But what is past my help is past my care.

但是我的帮助和关心已经过去了。

Every morning I wake up with new ideas.

每天早上我醒来都会有新的想法。