What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.

  • -- Norman Mailer 梅勒

一个少数群体的特征是,他被迫把自己看成是特殊的和无关紧要的,奇妙的和可怕的,善良的和邪恶的。

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I love to play golf, and that's my arena. And you can characterize it and describe it however you want, but I have a love and a passion for getting that ball in the hole and beating those guys.

我喜欢打高尔夫球,那是我的球馆。你可以描述它的特征,你想怎么描述它就怎么描述它,但是我对把球打进洞里打败那些家伙充满了热爱和激情。

He has selected from a group of overwhelming candidates. This candidate was nominated to the Supreme Court because of his extremely overwhelming qualifications.

他从众多候选人中选出了一位。这位候选人被提名为最高法院法官,因为他的资格极其优越。

And so I missed those best years and I find it difficult for me, in groups, to be comfortable.

所以我错过了那些最好的时光,我发现我很难在团队中感到舒适。

Cycles of shortage and surplus characterize the entire history of oil.

短缺和过剩的循环是石油整个历史的特征。