評論
打印
Gil：Can I ask you the biggest favor in the world？
吉爾：我能求你幫我個忙嗎？
Hemingway：What is it？
海明威：什么忙？
Gil：Would you read it？
吉爾：你愿意讀一下嗎？
Hemingway：Your novel？
海明威：你的小說？
Gil：Yeah,it's like 400 pages long and I'm just looking for,you know,an opinion.
吉爾：是的，大概有400頁，我只是想了解你下你的看法。
Hemingway：My opinion is I hate it.
海明威：我的看法是我討厭它。
Gil：I mean, you haven't even read it.
吉爾：可是你還沒有讀它啊。
Hemingway：If it's bad,I'll hate it because I hate bad writing,and if it's good I'll be envious and hate it all the more.You don't want the opinion of another writer.
海明威：如果它寫的很糟糕，我會討厭，因為我討厭糟糕的作品；如果這個作品很好，我會嫉妒，那我就會更加討厭。所以，你最好別從另一個作家那里討看法。
