之前看过一句话，大意是丁克基本就是很多人最想要的父母的样子，但这群人又是主动选择不生育小孩，永远不可能为人父母的。但Flipped无论是小说还是电影都展现了在我看来和谐又美好的亲子关系，其实我们还是有很大改进空间的，it's not all black and white.

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I understand now about the whole being greater than the sum of the parts.only with people it’s sometimes that the whole is less than the sum of the parts.

对人而言，总体的personality或者character是更重要的，许多人有局部的光芒，而局部的光芒又很吸引人，但人是作为整体而存在的，整体不是局部的简单相加，局部的光芒掩盖不了整体的黯淡。

To me, Juli Baker had always been too tough to cry.

一个男孩永远觉得对面的女孩子很坚强，不会轻易落泪。读到这里莫名心疼juli

One’s character is set at an early age, son. The choices you make now will affect you for the rest of your life.

好句子

“Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss … .” He turned to me. “But every once in a while you find someone who’s iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.”

最著名的翻译：有人住高楼，有人在深沟，有人光万丈，有人一身锈，世人万千种，浮云莫去求，斯人若彩虹，遇上方知有。

其实这本书不止关乎暗恋、情感。作者原话：My purpose for this book is to get the reader to think about what they would want for themselves in a relationship. If I write a sequel and show what happens to Bryce and Juli, then that’s answering the question for them. What I tell fans is to put themselves into Bryce’s or Juli’s shoes and live their life in a way that would make for the future they would want.It’s really a story about finding yourself and the healing power of forgiveness.

“To be held above the earth and brushed by the wind,” she said, “it’s like your heart has been kissed by beauty.”

juli爬上树，看到的景色，形容的感受为your heart has been kissed by beauty，特别贴切的表达，读到这里觉得自己语言很贫乏。

There was other stuff, too, like how something can be so much more than the parts it took to make it, and why people need things around them that lift them above their lives and make them feel the miracle of living.

感觉自己的人生经常处于这样的状态。

Why let the outside go and keep the inside so nice?

这句话表达的是为什么让院子这么脏乱而屋里如此干净，整洁有序。go表达的是messy的意思。类似点餐是时候for here or to go这些简单语句的延伸意都需要平时的积累。

He seemed to want to look at the scenery and I, well, I had a lot of questions, but none I wanted to ask. It was nice, though, riding with my father. It was like the silence connected us in a way that explanations never could.

“Except for the ice cream.” Then he turned serious. “The trouble is, you never know what ‘the ice cream’ is going to be. Sometimes it’s a fly in the room. Sometimes it’s the feel of his socks. It’s hard to predict everything. Usually getting ice cream is safe.”

父亲这次带女儿看智障叔叔的经历，是解释了院子脏乱的原因，是言传身教，是诠释何为家，也是在说如何以积极的态度面对生活。

And at that moment I was sure they must be able to hear my heart pounding in my chest.

We probably only stood there for five seconds, but it felt like a year.

Mom, all those years I liked him? I never really knew him. All I knew was that he had the most beautiful eyes I’d ever seen and that his smile melted my heart like the sun melts butter.

不一一列举，整部小说的内心感受都描写得很细腻。

This is not the way you want to feel about your father. When I was little, I’d always thought that my dad was right about everything and that there wasn’t a man on earth he couldn’t take. But standing there looking in, I realized that Mr. Baker could squash him like a bug.

我们小时候应该都认为父母是世界上最金光闪闪的人。