伊恩·麥克尤恩
當(dāng)代英國文學(xué)的重要代表
"Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared."
想象力不僅是人類獨(dú)有的能力，可以設(shè)想不存在的事物，因此是所有發(fā)明和創(chuàng)新的源泉。在其最具變革性和啟示性的能力中，它是一種力量，使我們能夠同情那些我們從未分享過經(jīng)歷的人。
"The past is always tense, the future perfect."
過去總是緊張的，未來則是完美的。
"To be a writer is to be interested in everything."
成為一個(gè)作家就是對一切都感興趣。
"We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct."
我們都同意你的理論很瘋狂。我們之間的分歧在于它是否足夠瘋狂以至于有可能正確。
"Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real."
愛是一種極其困難的領(lǐng)悟，即認(rèn)識到除了自己之外還有其他事物是真實(shí)的。
"A personality is a full Congress of orators and pressure-groups, of children, demagogues, communists, isolationists, war-mongers, mugwumps, grafters, prayer-meetings, spiritualists, and astrologers."
一個(gè)人格就是一場完整的演說家和壓力集團(tuán)的國會，里面有孩子、煽動(dòng)者、共產(chǎn)主義者、孤立主義者、戰(zhàn)爭販子、騎墻派、貪污者、祈禱會、通靈者和占星家。
"We are all of us made up of several people, and we contain the potential for all possible futures."
"We are all of us made up of several people, and we contain the potential for all possible futures."
我們都是由幾個(gè)人組成的，我們包含了所有可能未來的潛力。
"A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended."
一個(gè)人首先是物質(zhì)的東西，容易撕裂，不容易修補(bǔ)。
"The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return."
無論什么年齡，人心只會向同樣敞開的心敞開。
"The difference between a happy marriage and a miserable one... consists of about ten continued acts of stupidity or kindness, depending on the direction."
幸?；橐龊屯纯嗷橐龅膮^(qū)別...在于大約十個(gè)持續(xù)的愚蠢或善良行為，取決于方向。