How often one reads a contemporary full-length novel and thinks quietly, mutinously, that it would have worked out better at half or a third the length.

-- Ian McEwan 伊恩·麦克尤恩

有多少次，一个人在读一本当代的长篇小说时，会不动声色地、反叛地想，要是能读到一半或三分之一的篇幅就更好了。

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Unless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that... the control over your dearest interests has passed into the hands of these corporations.

除非你在你的国家变得更加警惕，检查垄断的精神和对独家特权的渴望，否则你最终会发现……你对自己最大利益的控制权已经落入这些公司手中。

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For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water.

我们平静地生活了一小段时间。但这种情况不会持续太久。白人在盘山绕水的地方发现了金子。

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Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.

睡眠是可爱的，死亡是更好的，没有出生当然是奇迹。

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When working out, length is not a substitute for intensity.

锻炼时，长度不能代替强度。

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He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

轻浮的人以为世界在转动。

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You are doing better than you think you are.

你做得比你想象的要好。

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