December 25th, 1848. 1848年12月25日 My dear Sir, 尊敬的先生， I will write to you at more length when my heart can find a little rest— now I can only thank you very briefly for your letter. 待我心绪稍宁后，我再写信与你详叙；现在
In the event of moon disaster 倘若有月球灾难 Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace. 命中注定，那些和平探索月球的人将在月球永远安息。 These brave men, Neil Arm
I had to take it off long before it reached the end. I just don't get it. I don’t understand what it is about. 我得在唱片播完前将它取下来。我实在不明白其中的含义。我也理解不了它表达的内容。 You actually go on tour with that stuff. WOW. Peo
I am speaking the plain truth of my reaction to the records and CD you sent. 我只是如实发表了自己对于这些录音带和CD的拙见。 This noise, how this noise, this very noise could give anyone any aesthetic pleasure is beyond my
Gustafsson: 古斯塔夫松： I finally gave a listen to those LPs and the CD you sent me, of your own saxophone playing and some Swedish modern jazz. 最后，我还是听了你寄来的LPs和CD，这些是你用自己的萨克斯吹奏的曲目和一些瑞典现代爵士乐。 I gotta tell
Another thing that bothers you is “cowardice in the face of the enemy”. 另一件烦扰你的事情是“面对敌人时的懦弱”。 Well, the point is I suffered from cowardice in the face of the enemy throughout the war — in the face of
Tuesday, 周二， Dearest, 亲爱的： I feel certain I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. 我觉得很快又要疯掉了。我不认为我们还能挺得过又一段饱受煎熬的苦日子。 And I shan't recover this time. I begin t
Where shall we go, of course I’d choose north Devon, sea, country and air, but, 我们该去哪儿呢？当然，我会选择北德文，那里有大海，乡村景色，还有新鲜空气。 March raises the question of weather, might we go to a largish town, I prefer vill
You are angry and hungry and alive. What I value in you is that intensity. 你又气又饿，却充满活力。我最敬重的是你那满腔热情。 I want to make portraits as intense as people. 我想把人类的这份热忱制作成肖像。 I want your intensity to pass into
Eudora Welty’s Amazing Cover Letter To The New Yorker 尤多拉·韦尔蒂写给《纽约客》的求职信 March 15, 1933 1933年3月15 Gentlemen, 先生们， I suppose you’d be more interested in even a sleight-o’-hand trick than you’d be in an
August 25 1915 1915年8月25 Dear old man – 亲爱的儿子 As I leave tomorrow at a perfectly ungodly hour in order that there may be time at the railway station to examine the passports, I write my little daily l
Then they all went out to see the explosion and Col. DS DSO said you will see that tree fall flat at just the angle where it will hurt no young trees 随后，他们都出去观看爆炸，德索上校说，你们会看到那棵树倒的角度刚好不会剐蹭到小树， and Lord
December, 1970, American Airlines 1970年12月，美国航空公司 Dear Mr. President. 亲爱的总统先生， First, I would like to introduce myself. I am Elvis Presley and admire you and have great respect for your office. I talk
Dear JK Rowling 亲爱的JK罗琳 I write to you as a mother, a Mummy, of a beautiful little girl. I’m sure you hear people tell you all the time that your words, your imagination helped them, or their children
Since I have bought an India print, and a large number of phonograph records from a Mr. Nussbaum who picks them up, and a Cezanne Bathers one inch long (that shows you I read e. e. cummings I hope), I
Dear Dad, 亲爱的爸爸， I'm putting this in a letter because phone calls have a way of disappearing in the whatever it is. 我把想说的话写进信里，是因为通过电话倾诉总感觉缺点什么。 I'm trying to put into words what I feel most deeply, n
Evelyn Waugh to his wife Laura 伊夫林·沃给妻子劳拉的信 31st of May 1942 1942年5月31日 Darling, 亲爱的， It was a great joy to get a letter from you. 很高兴收到你的来信。 I thought you had been swallowed up in some Pixton plague
April 14, 1971 1971年4月14日 Dear Children of Troy: 亲爱的特洛伊孩子们： Your librarian has asked me to write, telling you what a library can mean to you. 你们的图书管理员让我写封信，告诉你们图书馆于你们而言意味着什么。 A library is many things.
Nov. 12 1915 1915年11月12日 Dear Lionel 亲爱的莱昂内尔 Our boy was reported “wounded and missing” since Sep. 27 – the battle of Loos and we’ve heard nothing official since that date. But all we can pick up from
Dear F – 亲爱的父亲： Just a hurried line as we start off tonight. The front line trenches are nine miles off from here so it wont be a very long march. 我们今晚出发时，只是匆匆准备了一下。前线战壕距这里有九英里，所以不会行军太长时间。 This is the
