It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not.

  • -- Paul Auster 保罗·奥斯特

电话是打错的,半夜三更的时候,电话铃响了三次,电话那头有人在问他不是谁。

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I lost my voice for the first time. I was so bummed out, but it happens to every singer at some point in their career. I don't think most people understand, but I sing every night and sometimes we do five shows in a row, which is really bad for your voice.

我第一次失声了。我很沮丧,但这发生在每个歌手的职业生涯的某个阶段。我想大多数人都听不懂,但我每天晚上都唱歌,有时我们会连续演出五场,这对你的嗓子不好。

Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.

经验,已经被压缩成一组印象,围绕着我们每一个人的是一堵厚厚的人格之墙,没有任何真正的声音穿过这堵墙来到我们身边,或者从我们身边传到我们只能猜测没有的地方。

In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or immunity, but every biological structure and function because, ultimately, no one could explain how biological processes occurred.

在达尔文的时代,所有的生物学都是一个黑盒子:不仅是细胞,眼睛,消化,免疫,还有所有的生物结构和功能,因为最终没有人能解释生物过程是如何发生的。

My employer was never at any time aware of anything in my past beyond the writing I did, because, frankly, it isn't relevant to the job I was asked to do, which was to be a reporter.

我的雇主在任何时候都不知道我过去做过什么,除了写作,因为,坦白地说,这与我被要求做的工作无关,那就是记者。

Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.

以斯拉有一半时间是对的,当他错的时候,他错得太离谱了,你从来没有怀疑过。

The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.

认为有些生命不那么重要的观点,是这个世界所有问题的根源。