In my youth the lonely inventor who could not obtain a hearing was still the stock figure of the imagination 我年輕的時(shí)候,人們對發(fā)明家的印象仍然是那種不為人理睬、孤立無援這種固定模式的人物。
It ' s a curve , but its a nasty , wiggly line that looks more like the trail of a worm on lsd than it does like any curve worthy of the name 它是一條曲線,但它是一條沒有固定模式的,波動(dòng)的線,就好像吃了迷幻藥的蟲子的尾巴一樣的曲線,而不是任何一條已經(jīng)知名的曲線。