1 | 他把前额倚在自己的手上,于是人们站在敞开的大门外面向里张望——我们假设这个景象发生在夏天的傍晚——可是,所有这一切历史的虚构是多么沉闷啊! He leant his forehead on his hand, and people, looking in through the open door, --for this scene is supposed to take place on a summer's evening--But how dull this is, this historical fiction! | |
2 | "I grew up in a place like this, where everyone I knew went to space, " Garriott tells me over a lunch of veal and cabbage at a dreary Star City cafeteria. | |
3 | The time will come when all activities are depressing and heavy, and the dreaded question, "What' s the use?" will have to be faced and dealt with. | |
4 | You might think that imagining a future haircut would be pretty dull. Not at all. | |
5 | The atmosphere was dull at best and I actually inhabited the room for the better part of the semester without incident until two weeks before finals. |