小词详解

American comedies especially are all about these men being browbeaten by their wives and it's impossible for me to watch.
美国喜剧尤其尽是些男人被妻子威逼恫吓的，这让我没法看。

The past is obdurate. It doesn't want to change.
历史非常顽固，它不想改变。

I am acerbic. I can be cruel. It's who I am. Right to the bottom. I'm neither proud of this, nor ashamed of it. It simply is.
我生性尖刻，甚至可以很无情。我就是这个样子，从里到外彻头彻尾都是。我既不以此为傲，也不觉得羞愧，这只是个事实。

A man gets tired of living a profligate life.
一个厌倦了放荡不羁生活的人。

To be a colored man in America... and enjoy it, you must be greatly daring, greatly stolid, greatly humorous and greatly sensitive. And at all times a philosopher.
在美国做个有色人种……并享受它，你必须非常勇敢、非常冷静、非常幽默以及非常敏感。而且在任何时候都得是一个哲学家。