伊恩·麥克尤恩
當(dāng)代英國文學(xué)的重要代表
"It's not generally realized that all writers, even the greatest, are also readers first and last."
人們通常沒有意識(shí)到，所有的作家，即使是最偉大的作家，首先和最后也都是讀者。
"The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse."
白日夢的代價(jià)總是這一刻的回歸，與之前的一切重新對齊，而現(xiàn)在看起來似乎更糟了一些。
"A story was a form of telepathy. By means of inking symbols onto a page, she was able to send thoughts and feelings from her mind to her reader's."
故事是一種心靈感應(yīng)。通過在紙上涂寫符號(hào)，她能夠?qū)⑺枷牒透星閺乃男撵`傳送到讀者的心靈。
"Memory is what we thought we'd forgotten; it's what we have forgotten we've forgotten."
記憶是我們以為已經(jīng)忘記的東西；它是我們已經(jīng)忘記自己忘記了的東西。
"When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too."
當(dāng)我們愛時(shí)，我們總是努力變得比現(xiàn)在更好。當(dāng)我們努力變得更好時(shí)，周圍的一切也會(huì)變得更好。
"A personality is a full congress of orators and pressure groups, of children, demagogues, communists, isolationists, war mongers, mugwumps, grafters, prayer-makers, adventurers and clerks; with each of these in a minority of one."
一個(gè)人格就是一場完整的演說家和壓力集團(tuán)的集會(huì)，有兒童、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、祈禱者、冒險(xiǎn)家和職員；每一個(gè)都只占一席之地。
The only way to deal with death is to transform everything that precedes it into art.
應(yīng)對死亡的唯一方法就是將之前的一切轉(zhuǎn)化為藝術(shù)。
The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for.
世界是一個(gè)美好的地方，值得為之奮斗。
We are all of us made by what we have done, and what has been done to us.
我們都是由我們所做的事以及別人對我們所做的事塑造的。
The past is always tense, the future perfect.
過去總是緊張的，未來是完美的。