The urge to convert experience into a group of words that are in a grammatical relation to one another is the most basic, ongoing impulse of my life.

  • -- Jhumpa Lahiri 茱帕·拉希里

把经验转换成一组彼此之间有语法关系的单词的冲动是我生命中最基本的、持续的冲动。

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Without any formal orders to retreat, what was left of the several organizations yielded to a general impulse to abandon the field. Officers and men became controlled by the one thought of getting as far as possible from the enemy.

由于没有任何撤退的正式命令,剩下的几个组织屈服于放弃战场的普遍冲动。军官和士兵被一种想法所控制,那就是尽可能远离敌人。

Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself.

为我写作的部分冲动实际上是想远离我自己。

Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.

武力可以使人成为伪君子,但决不能使人改变信仰。