特里·普拉切特
幽默奇幻文學(xué)的代表人物
The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it.
The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it.
被稱為"人群"的生物的智商是其人數(shù)的平方根。
Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.
光以為它比任何東西都快，但它錯(cuò)了。無(wú)論光跑得多快，黑暗總是先到一步，并在那里等著它。
The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.
如果劍很短而筆很鋒利，那么筆就比劍更有力量。
The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.
尋找真理的人的存在，遠(yuǎn)比那些認(rèn)為自己已經(jīng)找到真理的人的存在更值得珍視。
It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.
除非某處的某人寧愿你不做這件事，否則這件事就不值得做。
In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.
起初一無(wú)所有，然后發(fā)生了爆炸。
Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.
給一個(gè)人火，他能溫暖一天；但把他點(diǎn)燃，他能溫暖余生。
The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.
整個(gè)人生就像看電影。只是你總是在影片開(kāi)始十分鐘后才進(jìn)場(chǎng)，而且沒(méi)人告訴你劇情，所以你必須自己從線索中拼湊出來(lái)。
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
保持開(kāi)放心態(tài)的麻煩在于，人們總會(huì)堅(jiān)持過(guò)來(lái)試圖往里面塞東西。
It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.
人們常說(shuō)，在你死之前，你的一生會(huì)在眼前閃過(guò)。事實(shí)上確實(shí)如此。這就叫生活。