Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.

  • -- E. M. Forster E·M·福斯特

信件必须通过两项测试才能被归类为优秀:它们必须同时表达写信人和收信人的个性。

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In all of my work I'm trying to create a dialogue, in which I want to provoke the recipients, stimulate them to use their own imaginations. I don't just say things recipients want to hear, flatter their egos or comfort them by agreeing with them. I have to provoke them, to take them as seriously as I take myself.

在我所有的作品中,我都试图创造一种对话,在这种对话中,我想激发接受者,激发他们使用自己的想象力。我不只是说收件人想听的话,奉承他们的自尊心,或者同意他们的意见来安慰他们。我必须激怒他们,像对待自己一样认真对待他们。

We would certainly welcome the recipient nation to put their inspectors on our shores, if they wanted to make that investment to help protect that shipment that is outgoing.

我们当然欢迎接受国派遣他们的检查员到我们的海岸,如果他们想要投资帮助保护出口的货物的话。

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

知识分子与普通人不同,但只是在他性格的某些方面不同,即便如此,也并非总是如此。

He's computerized, but I won't let him come on cold. I created KITT. I understand the personality of the car.

他是电脑化的,但我不会让他冷静下来。我创建了小猫。我了解这辆车的特性。

As a guest who doesn't eat, drink or smoke, you leave much to be desired, but as a writer, you're my girl.

作为一个不吃、不喝、不抽烟的客人,你有很多不足之处,但作为一个作家,你是我的女孩。

There's a word for a writer who never gives up: published.

有一个词可以用来形容永不言弃的作家:出版。