But Jim acts from instinct... he is functional... He's my other half, between us we'd make one marvellous man, except that neither of us can sing.
“但是吉姆是个凭本能就能会行动的人……他是执行者……他是我的另一半，我们两个加起来，可以成为一个很完美的人，唯一不足的是我们两个都不会唱歌。” (查看原文)
Was his right-wing stand at Oxford a pose, or was it paradoxically the state of sin from which Karla summoned him to grace?
Ask Karla: pity I didn't.
Ask Jim: I never shall.
Illusion? Was that really Karla's name for love? And Bill's? (查看原文)
但是他的直觉告诉他不用如此，因此他就直接往自己的拖车走去，放声唱着“嗨，打炮打炮”，尽管他嗓门不高，而且走调。
But instinct advised him 'no', so he set course directly for the caravan, singing 'Hey diddle diddle' as loud as his tuneless voice would carry. (查看原文)
Haydon, once his confessor; Haydon, always good for a laugh, a chat and a cup of burnt coffee; Haydon, a model on which he built his life.
More, far more. Now that he saw, he knew. Haydon was more than his model, he was his inspiration, the torch-bearer of a certain kind of antiquated romanticism, a notion of English calling which—for the very reason that it was vague and understated and elusive—had made sense of Guillam's life till now. In that moment, Guillam felt not merely betrayed; but orphaned. His suspicions, his resentments for so long turned outwards on the real world—on his women, his attempted loves—now swung upon the Circus and the failed magic which had formed his faith. (查看原文)
他曾经说过：“所谓间谍，就是在扮演自己时，同时也在扮演着’外在的自己‘（outside of themselves）。”这是间谍自我的内在分裂症，而显露在间谍体制上的，则就是在那个尔虞我诈的世界里，忠贞、爱国、勇敢、献身等又和贪婪、权力、腐化、败德、出卖、背叛等相互叠映，造成了另一种精神和体制的荒芜。 (查看原文)
