I got two letters from the Astronomer Royal thanking me for writing about meteors.
皇家天文家学会给我写过两封信,感谢我写去关于流星的信。
He was rightly suspicious of meeting me until I reassured him I was not writing about him.
他对于见我充满疑虑,直到我向他再次保证我不是在写有关他的东西。
I felt too constrained working with the past, like what I wrote needed to be fact as opposed to fiction, but writing about the future gave me more freedom to imagine, to invent.
和过去打交道让我感觉太拘束了,就像我写的东西必须是事实,不能虚构,但写与未来有关的东西给了我更多的自由去想象,去创作。
That's what interests me most about computers, writing programmes.
我对计算机最感兴趣的就是编写程序。
What I learned, and what stuck with me through my time teaching writing at Harvard, was a deeper lesson about the nature of creative criticism.
在哈佛教写作的那段时间里,我学到并铭记着关于创造性批评本质的更深刻的一课。
Freddie would tell me nothing about what he was writing, except that it was to be a Christmas play.
弗雷迪不愿告诉我他在写什么,只说会是个圣诞剧本。
lt's a little crazy for me to be writing about migration patterns without actually knowing how they stay underwater for so long.
对我来说,在不知道它们是如何在水下呆这么久的情况下,写它们的洄游模式有点疯狂。
What I thought I was writing on was to talk about what particular sport means to me when I participate in.
我想我写的是谈论当我参加某项运动时,它对我来说意味着什么。
What I thought I was writing on was to talk about what a particular sport means to me when I participate in it.
我想我写的是谈论关于参加某项运动时,它对我来说意味着什么。
In her last months of life, Mom told me she was writing something about cancer that she thought could help other people who were sick feel less alone.
在母亲生命的最后几个月中,她曾告诉我她正在写关于癌症的一些东西,她希望以此帮助其他病人,让他们觉得没那么孤独。
And I sort of gave him hints about how to attack Irving Singer and his writing and he took me up on that and then what I published was a much less favorable paper.
我给了他很多暗示,怎样抨击欧文·辛格和他的作品,他接受了我的意见,之后发表的那篇论文中不太有利于我。
And yet when I think about working to keep code well-factored and writing tests, I find that makes me go faster.
但当我回顾我自己的经历时,却发现保持代码的良好构造以及编写测试反而使我的工作加快了。
I have had the pleasure of working with my colleague Andre Tost for several years now, and when he told me about the Comment lines article he was writing, Are you an SOA Expert?
我很荣幸和同事AndreTost一起工作了好几年,而当他告诉我关于他正在撰写的评论专栏文章“您是一名SOA专家吗?”
Your humble writer knows a little bit about a lot of things, but despite writing a fair amount about text processing (a book, for example), linguistic processing is a relatively novel area for me.
鄙人并非见多识广,虽然写过很多关于文本处理 方面的东西(例如,一本书),但是,对我来说,语言处理(linguistic processing)是一个相对新奇的领域。
Martin Fowler: the thing I like about taking small steps and writing tests first is that it gives me a simple to do list of the things I've got to do.
MartinFowler:我之所以采用逐步设计以及先写测试的方法,是因为这样做使我有了一个简明扼要的任务列表。
Then one day I just up and wrote to her. And she wrote me back and said she had been thinking about writing to me.
接着,随后的一天我突然拿起笔写了封信给她,她给我回了信,并说她之前也一直想给我写份信来着。
When I heard this story, it reminded me that any good journalist should follow this strategy when he’s writing about a company.
这个故事提醒了我,其实每个优秀的记者在准备以某个公司作为写作对象时,都应该遵循这样的策略。
Over the years, Salinger told me about working “long and crazy hours” at his writing and trying to stay away from everything that was written about him.
塞林格在过去的年月里告诉我,他花费了“漫长而疯狂的时间”写他的作品,并试图远离一切描写他的文章。
What if I spent 30 minutes today writing and thinking about priorities, dreams, goals, and about what makes me happy?
如果我今天花30分钟写下并思考一些让我感兴趣的东西,如工作重点、梦想、目标,那会怎样?
The best way I know to think about things is to write about them, and so in order to force me to go beyond the obvious I am writing a book about what technology means.
我认为解决问题最好的办法就是写关于它们的文章,为了迫使自己不被表象迷惑,我正在写一本关于科技意味着什么的书。
People were writing to me saying that now they could talk about their illness with their wives or husbands.
人们纷纷给我写信,告诉我他们现在有了与自己的妻子或丈夫讨论自己疾病的勇气。
It gives me time to think about what I need to do this week, what blog topics I may feel like writing about, what may have happened yesterday, or what may be eating at me at the time.
它给我时间让我思考这周我需要做什么,我会喜欢写什么样主题的博客,昨天发生了什么事,或者昨天此时我在吃什么。
In case you're curious, I asked her whether she was okay with me writing about this.
为防止大家好奇,我询问了她是否介意我写这篇文章。
I thought I had already covered that by writing a column about my life in TIME magazine and appearing on every TV show that asks me, but apparently the blazer pushed me over the edge.
我原以为自己在《时代》杂志上开个专栏,并且抓住一切机会上电视,已经达到了显摆的效果呢,但显然穿西装比这些更严重。
I told him what I was writing about he stared at me for a long time, then finally quipped: “I've had my eye on the Lincoln Tunnel for years.
我一搞科研的同事不很看重这事。他是实验心理学家,不是温和、模糊的临床派。 当我和他提及我的文章时,他先是看了我好一会儿,最后他开玩笑说:“我已经盯着林肯隧道好多年了。”
But for some reason the complete waste of a day yesterday talking about Harrison Ford made me completely forget about the writing and the one and a half hours whizzed by.
不知是什么原因,在昨天浪费了一节课来谈哈瑞森后,我竟忘了这个烦人的考试。
So how about your writing me a cheque for 20,000 dollars to begin with?
给我一张20,000美元的支票作为开始,怎么样?
You have been writing an instruction manual this entire time and you didn't tell me about it?
你一直在写指令手册,却没有告知我?
was about to become a book, and my "writing" became "literary creation", which is very uncustomary to me, but still I have to give opinions on "literature"
我的帖子就要变成书了,我的“写”成了“创作”,这让我很不习惯啊,但是还是要谈一谈“创作谈”的,于是,就这样写了
was about to become a book, and my "writing" became "literary creation", which is very uncustomary to me, but still I have to give opinions on "literature"
我的帖子就要变成书了,我的“写”成了“创作”,这让我很不习惯啊,但是还是要谈一谈“创作谈”的,于是,就这样写了
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