阿德里安·麦金蒂是北爱尔兰犯罪、神秘小说和青少年小说的作家,以其2020年获奖的惊悚片《锁链》和《肖恩·达菲小说》而闻名于世。他是埃德加奖,泰克斯顿老派克利尔犯罪小说年度奖,麦卡维提奖,奈德凯利奖。
Irish fathers still have certain responsibilities, and by the time my two daughters turned seven, they could swim, ride a bike, sing at least one part of a Woody Guthrie song, and recite all of W. B. Yeats's 'The Song of Wandering Aengus.'
爱尔兰的父亲仍然负有一定责任,当我的两个女儿年满7岁时,他们可以游泳,骑自行车,唱伍迪·古斯里(Woody Guthrie)歌曲的至少一部分,并朗诵全部W。 B. 叶芝(Yeats)的《流浪之歌》。 '
Our daughter's name Arwynn comes from Arwen in 'Lord of the Rings' because my wife and I met for the first time in the Eagle and Child pub in Oxford where J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis used to go to read out their stories to one another.
我们女儿的名字Arwynn是来自《指环王》中的Arwen,因为我和我的妻子在牛津大学的“鹰与儿童”酒馆(J. R. R. 托尔金和C. S. 刘易斯曾经去互相宣读他们的故事。
I met my wife in Oxford, fell in love with her, and followed her to New York. I was an illegal there for the first few years, until we got married, so I ended up doing lots of interesting jobs, some for a few days, some for a few months.
我在牛津遇到了我的妻子,爱上了她,并跟随她到了纽约。 在开始的几年里,我一直是非法的,直到我们结婚为止,所以我结束了很多有趣的工作,有的工作了几天,有的工作了几个月。