I came to understand that to be a man, or to be a woman, or to be anybody, really, you first have to be at ease with being nobody.
我终于理解到，要成为一个男人，或者一个女人，或者任何人，首先你得对做无名之辈感到自在。
0 Btree 《Demon Copperhead》
When you don't have money, you learn to find value in things other people throw away.
当你没有钱的时候，你学会在别人丢弃的东西里发现价值。
I was born to be nobody and I fought my whole life against it.
我生来就是无名之辈，而我一生都在与之抗争。
I found out that the dark doesn't actually swallow you. It just gives you something to push against.
我发现黑暗不会真的吞没你，它只是给你一些东西去对抗。
You can go home again, just not to the one you left.
你可以回家，只是不再是离开时的那个家了。
Being free means nothing if you're free to be hungry, free to be cold, free to be alone.
如果你自由地挨饿、自由地受冻、自由地孤独，自由就毫无意义。
The road out is paved with regret, but sometimes you have to walk it to get to where you're going.
出去的路铺满了悔恨，但有时你必须走完它才能到达你要去的地方。
We are all just stories in the end. Make yours a good one.
到最后我们都只是一个故事。让你的故事成为一个好故事。
I learned early that money was just paper, and the real currency was who you knew.
我很早就学会了，钱不过只是纸，真正的货币是你认识谁。
The world's a strange place, and it doesn't owe you a home.
世界是个奇怪的地方，它不欠你一个家。
I have known grief, I have known love, I have known the thin places between the two.
我了解悲伤，我了解爱，我了解两者之间狭窄的缝隙。
The best thing about being at the bottom is that there's nowhere left to fall.
在底部最好的事情是，已经没有更低的地方可以跌了。
It is the people who are not in the paper that do the most for you.
是那些不上报纸的人为你做了最多的事。
My mother taught me nothing about life, but she taught me everything about surviving.
我母亲没教我关于生活的任何事，但她教会了我关于生存的一切。
I figured that if life was going to keep knocking me down, I might as well get something out of it.
我心想，如果生活要一直把我打倒，我至少也该从中学到点什么。
It's a miracle anyone makes it out of the holler, let alone makes something of it.
居然有人从山谷里走出来，更别说做出什么成就了，这真是个奇迹。
Some things, once you see them, can't be unseen. That's the long goodbye.
有些事，一旦看见，就再也看不见不到了。那就是漫长的告别。
I came to understand that to be a man, or to be a woman, or to be anybody, really, you first have to be at ease with being nobody.
我终于理解到，要成为一个男人，或者一个女人，或者任何人，首先你得对做无名之辈感到自在。
The trouble with second chances is that nobody tells you when you've already used them all up.
第二次机会的麻烦是，没人告诉你你什么时候已经用完了所有的第二次机会。
What gets thrown away is never really thrown away, it just ends up in someone else's business.
被丢掉的东西永远不会真正被丢掉，它只是进了别人的生意。
You can see yourself in someone else and not recognize it for years.
你能在别人身上看到自己，却好几年都没认出来。
Being poor is a full-time job, and nobody's paying you for it.
贫穷是一份全职工作，而且没人付你工钱。
To be born in this century in this country is to be born into a series of disappointments.
在这个世纪在这个国家出生，就是出生在一系列的失望中。
I'd learned early on that the whole wide world could care less whether you're still around.
我很早就学会了一件事：整个世界根本不在乎你是否还在。
There's a particular sadness to watching someone you love destroy themselves, and there's no language for it.
看着你爱的人毁灭自己有一种特别的悲伤，而且没有语言可以表达。
I've been given one life, and it's got all kinds of roads in it, and I'm still taking them one at a time.
我被赋予了一条命，里面有各种各样的路，我仍然一条一条地走。
Grief ain't nothing but missing someone. It ain't even about the dying.
悲伤无非是想念某个人，甚至不是关于死亡。
I was born on the smallest of shifts, and I would die on the smallest of shifts.
我在最细微的转变中出生，也将在最细微的转变中死去。
The pills were like this place: a gate you go through to get somewhere else. Only trouble was there was nothing on the other side.
药片就像这个地方：一扇你穿过到别处的门。麻烦的是，另一边什么都没有。
Being on the outs is a kind of art. The experts never offer to pay for it.
被排除在外是一种艺术。专家们从不为此付款。
You can take a kid out of the mountains but you can't take the mountains out of the kid.
你可以把孩子从山里带出去，但你无法把山从孩子心里拿走。
芭芭拉·金索沃（生于1955年）是美国当代着名作家和环保活动家。她出生在马里兰州，在肯塔基州长大，拥有生物学和生态学学位。她的文学作品常融合个人叙事与社会议题，关注环境正义、女性主义和社区韧性。金索沃的代表作包括《毒木圣经》（1998年）和《豆树青青》（1988年），这些作品奠定了她在美国文学界的地位。她曾获得多个文学奖项，并积极参与环保倡导。
