
- They are very weird people.
他们是非常奇怪的人类。
- There are billions of them in the world, like colors on the screen of your computer.
世上有千百万这样的怪胎,多得就像你计算机屏幕上的色彩。
- They will analyse conversations in layers.
他们会像对待图层一样,逐层分析谈话的含义。
- You will spend the day assembling furniture from IKEA.
你得花一整天跟他们一起组装宜家家具。
- They drink and eat all kinds of weird shit just because they like the packaging.
他们向来不管什么都往嘴里倒,只因为他们喜欢那些食物的包装。
- They hate each other.
他们讨厌彼此。
- You’ll come out the last out of the movies because you have to see the full list of credits.
欣赏完一部电影之后,你会是最后一个走出影院的人,因为你得陪他看完演职员字幕才能走。
- They can’t change a light bulb or without making a sketch.
他们换不了一个灯泡,或者说,他们得先画张草图才行。
- They fuck up all the tables with their cutters.
如果有人打扰到他们,他们会掀桌子给你看。
- They rather study the paisley pattern on your outfit than listen to what you have to say.
他们宁愿研究你外套上的佩斯利涡漩花纹,也不会想去听你说什么。
- They will fill your house with magazines and whatever is out there that has drawings.
他们会在你家堆满杂志,或者随便什么有着图画的东西。
- You never know if it is really an original or a copy.
你永远不会知道那是原版的还是仿制的。
- They make collages with your photos.
他们会拿你的照片玩拼图。
- They do not know how to add and subtract, they just understand letters.
他们不懂什么是加减,他们只认字母。
- They idolize people who nobody knows and speak of them as if they were his colleagues.
他们崇拜着没人知道的某号人物,聊起此人来彷佛就像他们是同事一样。
- They take pictures almost daily and all are cut in weird shapes.
他们几乎每天都要拍照,并且都喜欢裁成怪异的形状。
- They ask your opinion about everything but they do whatever they want.
他们什么都要问你的意见,然后他们爱干什么就干什么。
- Everything is left justified, right or center unless they arrive late.
什么东西都要左对齐、右对齐,或是居中对齐,除非他们晚点了。
- They hate Comic Sans with the same passion they love Helvetica.
他们狂热地讨厌着 Comic Sans 字体正如他们狂热地偏爱 Helvetica 字体一样。
- They use iPhone for everything, because everyone has one.
他们用iPhone做每一件事,因为他们人手一台。
- You can not decorate the house without consulting them.
你不能在咨询他们的意见之前就装饰你的房子。
- They steal street signs.
他们偷走街头的路牌。
- Always carry their hands painted with something.
他们的手总是染着某种色彩。
- They buy dolls unfinished for them to paint.
他们买玩偶的半成品,就为了自己可以来上色。
- Everything becomes something other than what it really is: cards as tickets, cards as …
任何事物在他们的观念中总不是事物的原本定义。比如说拿卡片当作门票,拿卡片当作XX等等。
- When arguing, you will be nicknamed like the OSX spinning wheel (not affectionately)
当你们斗嘴时,你会被取个类似「苹果平台的彩色转轮」之类的绰号。(当然不是昵称)
- Do not know how to dress without consulting the Pantone book.
不看国际标准色卡他们简直就不知道该穿什么。
- They hate Excel.
他们讨厌 Excel 这类电子表格软件。
- They read comics.
他们看漫画书。
- They want to save the world only with a poster.
对他们来说做个海报就像是拯救世界的大事。
- You will spend the day brainstorming.
你会花一整天来和他一起做头脑风暴。
- On vacation they will take you to countries that you do not know exist and have no beach.
他们会带你去你从没听说过的国家度假,而且保证是个你找不到海滩的地方。
- Museums are their second home.
博物馆是他们的第二个家。
- They know more positions than the Kamasutra.
他们想得到的姿势比印度爱经都多。
- They can’t go to a restaurant without secretly critiquing the menu design.
在没有私下品评过某餐馆的菜单设计的前提下,他们是不会去那家餐馆的。
- They listen to music you have never heard of.
他们听你从没听过的音乐。
- They can′t cook a normal dish, they always have to experiment with new ingredients.
他们不会做一道正常的菜,缘于他们总喜欢尝试新作料。
- They read rare books: stories of children, Semiotics …
他们总看些奇怪的书:儿童故事、语言符号学等等。
- When you are going to tell you something, everyone has read it in their facebook and twitter.
当他要跟你说什么事的时候,你们所认识的所有亲朋好友都会从他们的脸书和推特上看到。
- They have own iPods before you knew they existed.
你在知道他们存在之前就已经知道他们都有自己的iPod了。
- The orgasm they remember is when they heard that Adobe was acquiring Macromedia.
他们能记得的性高潮是发生在他们听说 Adobe 收购 Macromedia 的那一刻。
- They have their own shops just for them and there are the most expensive in the city.
他们有固定采购的店铺,而那里的东西往往是全城卖得最贵的。
- They want to spend all the money in the Apple Store.
他们愿意在苹果专卖店宣布破产。
- You will never understand their gifts.
你永远不懂他们送你的礼物。
- They see ordinary objects and laugh.
他们会看到寻常对象时开怀大笑。
- You wake up in the middle of the night hearim them screaming 「When is the deadline?」
你会在半夜里被他们惊叫「什么时候截稿?」而吓醒。
- They see CMYK and RGB like Neo sees the Matrix. 他
们看到的 CMYK 和 RGB 如同《黑客帝国》的 Neo 看待矩阵。
- They dream of the day nobody will make a single change to their designs.
他们总妄想着有天没有人会改动他们任一的设计细节。
- They rather pay for a font than for a special birthday gift.
他们宁愿花钱买字体也不会想去买份特别的生日礼物。
- They are always sleepy because they work 24/7.
他们永远在缺觉状态,因为他们每周工作七天,每天工作24小时。
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