名言:Charlie Brown 的终极思索
“Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, "Why me?", then a voice answers "Nothing personal, your name just happened to come up."
有时,我晚上躺在床上无法入睡,张口问道:“为什么偏偏要让我这么难?”,然后,就会听到一个声音回答道:“不是偏要跟你过不去,这回就是让你赶上了。”
“Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, ‘Where have I gone wrong?’ Then a voice says to me, ‘This is going to take more than one night.'”
有时,我晚上躺在床上无法入睡,张口问道:“我到底是哪一步弄错了?”,然后,就会听到一个声音对我说:“这件事可不是一个晚上的时间就能掰扯明白的。”
“Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, ‘is life a multiple choice test or is it a true or false test?’ Then a voice comes out of the dark, and says: ‘We hate to tell you this, but life is a thousand word essay.'”
有时,我晚上躺在床上无法入睡,张口问道:“生活到底是多项选择题、还是判断正误的是非题呢,是非此即彼、还是可以同时有多个答案呢?”,然后,就会听到一个声音从黑暗中响起:“对不起,我们要让你失望了:这两种题型都不是,生活是一道写作题,篇幅长度需要1000个英文单词(中文相当于2000字)。”
“Sometimes I lie awake at night in bed and I ask, Is it all worth it?’ And then a voice says, ‘Who are you talking to?’ And another voice says, ‘You mean: to whom are you talking?’ And I say, ‘No wonder I lie awake at night.'”
有时,我晚上躺在床上无法入睡,张口问道:“人活这一辈子到底为了什么呀?”,然后,就会听到一个声音反问我:“你在跟我们中的哪个人说话?”接着,另一个声音说道,“你这句话好像有问题,你应该用Who的宾语形式Whom,另外,To是介词,不能放在句尾。”然后我说道,“你们上面有这么多人,而且连语法都搞不清楚,怪不得我晚上睡不着觉。”
“Never lie in bed at night asking yourself questions you can’t answer…”
我给大家的忠告是:“晚上躺在床上无法入睡时,还是别去问那些自己回答不了的问题。”
Charlie Brown 查理·布朗
选自Charles Schulz (1922-2000)的漫画集Peanuts
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