答：卡伦一家是罪犯。大量的伪造毫无疑问是他们生活的一部分。他们不得不每隔几年就要换一批新的出生证明，驾驶证，毕业证，护照等等。虽然卡莱尔一直在更新他证书上的日期，可是他也只能偶尔才会重返校园一次。“孩子们”，同样需要不时的入读医学院，以便让卡莱尔能持续进修。爱德华读过两次，罗莎莉读过一次（以哥伦比亚大学最优异成绩毕业）。他们肯定要纳税的——税务局才没空查你的照片呢，他们想要的只是你的钱而已。大约每隔70年，他们就要例行公事地“装死”一次。这真是非常非常的麻烦。幸运的是，因为无需睡眠使他们得到了很多很多的空闲时间去对付这种事。至于罪犯这件事，好吧，他们中绝大多数都可以因谋杀罪被直接送去坐牢了
Q: Okay, this wasn’t a question, but an observation: And I really kind of hope Bella doesn’t just get a personality trait enhanced or whatever. I think that’s sort of… I don’t know, weird. Rosalie brought her ‘tenacity’, which I think seems to be sort of asuckish gift to bring into your, um, vampire life. Or the ‘capacity to love’. That was Eѕme, right? Hmmm… can’t remember. But I’d much rather have like Alice or Edward’s ability.
问：好的，这不算个问题，只是个意见：我真的很希望贝拉不仅仅在个性或者其他类似的方面得到提升而已。我觉得那有点…我不知道，是怪异吧。罗莎莉带来的是她的“固执”，这对于你的，呃…吸血鬼生命来讲，看起来是个很糟糕的天赋啊。拥有“爱人的能力”的，应该是埃斯梅，对吧？唔……不记得了。我还是喜欢爱丽丝或爱德华的才能多一些。
A:Yes, there is a big difference in the potency (for lack of a better word) of the qualities that vampireѕ bring into this second life. There seems to be some confusion about this from some of the things I’ve read. I’ll try to explain it coherently, but I’m a little punch drunk from the editing, so bear with me: Okay, there are levels. Some vampires just have their personalities intensified. Eѕme is very loving and motherly–she becomeѕ more so. Some vampires are unique in that they had slightly elevated abilities when they were human. Like Edward, who was always very sensitive to what other people were thinking without realizing it. Or Jasper, who was really chariѕmatic, and could always talk people into seeing his side of things.
答：没错，在吸血鬼进入第二次生命后，力量方面（原谅我找不到另一个更适合词来表达——因为potency同时也有男性性能力的意思sue）的确有质的飞跃。这个解释似乎混淆了我以前在书本上所获得的认知。我试着结合起来一块解释，请原谅我以下的表述可能会有点杂乱：好的，这是有水平之分的。一些吸血鬼就仅仅是个性上的增强。埃斯梅本来就很慈爱而且具有强烈的母性——后来的她这个特性也随之变得更加地突出和显著。还有一些吸血鬼当他们还是人类时就已经具有比一般人稍稍厉害一点的才能了，这比较罕见。像爱德华，平常就对其他人自身并未曾察觉到的念头非常的敏丵感。或者是贾斯帕，极具感召力的他，总能通过谈话引导人们朝他所期望那个方向去。
When someone “special” like that gets turned into a vampire, that personality trait takes on a new strength, becoming more like a superpower than a trait. Some peoples’ strongest characteristics are physical rather than mental–like Emmett and his physical strength. And Rosalie with her beauty. (“AH HA!!” you are all saying. “But you said that Rosalie’s strongest trait was tenacity in the book!” To which I say, “Sometimes Edward lies.” He had a reason–that will be in his version of the story.) Emmett and Rosalie are perfect for each other because they are both such physical people. But some characteristics skirt the line between “strong trait” and “superpower.” Carlisle’s compassion-motivated self-control is really so incredible that it almost crosses the line into “superpower.”