You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do.

  • -- Rebecca Harding Davis 丽贝卡·戴维斯

你会发现,诗人或他那个时代最重要的船长,就像你会做的那样,会讨价还价或削土豆皮。

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If my heart still beat I didn't know it. I was aware of one thing only; next to the gaping fact called Death, all I knew was nothing, all I did meant nothing, all I felt conveyed nothing. This was no passing thought. It was a gnawing, palpable emptiness more real than the cold.

如果我的心还在跳动,我不知道。我只知道一件事;除了一个叫死亡的巨大事实,我所知道的一切都是虚无,我所做的一切都毫无意义,我所感到的一切都毫无意义。这不是一时的想法。这是一种比寒冷更真实、更令人痛苦、更明显的空虚。

We want to overcome our historical problems with Chile. The sea has divided us and the sea must bring us back together again. Chile has agreed, for the first time, to talk about sea access for Bolivia.

我们希望克服与智利之间的历史问题。大海把我们分开了,大海必须把我们重新聚在一起。智利首次同意讨论玻利维亚的海上通道问题。

When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.

当尤利西斯听到一个史诗诗人唱他自己的故事,然后他暴露了自己的身份,诗人想继续唱下去,尤利西斯不再感兴趣了。这是非常惊人的。

I will only observe, that that ethereal sense - sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have from time acquired a very remarkable additional power.

我只能说,在天平的另一端,那虚无缥缈的视觉和触觉,随着时间的推移,获得了一种非凡的额外力量。

From the throes of inspiration and the eddies of thought the poet may at last be able to arrive at, and convey the right admixture of words and meaning.

从灵感的剧痛和思想的漩涡中,诗人也许终于能够达到并传达出正确的词语和意义的混合。

I'm not driven by killer ambition. I'm not a workaholic. I'm a good team player. I don't have to be captain, but I do want to play on a winning team.

我不是被野心驱使的。我不是工作狂。我是一个很好的团队成员。我不必当队长,但我确实想为一支获胜的球队效力。

When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain.

当一个人对自己不满意时,它有一个好处——它使他有一个很好的心态去做交易。

Two things prolong your life: A quiet heart and a loving wife.

有两件事可以延年益寿:一颗宁静的心和一位贤惠的妻子。

I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.

我在餐馆里当过领班和服务员。

It takes two to make a bargain.

达成协议需要两个人。