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Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

  • -- Lionel Trilling 特里林

文学是一种人类活动，它对多样性、可能性、复杂性和艰巨性进行了最全面、最精确的描述。

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Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or anything else, is always a portrait of himself, and the more he tries to conceal himself the more clearly will his character appear in spite of him.

每个人的工作，无论是文学、音乐、绘画还是其他任何工作，都是自己的一幅画像，他越想隐藏自己，他的性格就越会在不顾自己的情况下清晰地显现出来。

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Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything.

出生是一扇窗户的突然打开，透过它你可以看到一个惊人的前景。发生了什么事?一个奇迹。你没有拿任何东西来交换一切的可能性。

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A healthy human environment is one in which we try to make sense of our limits, of the accidents that can always befall us and the passage of time which inexorably changes us.

健康的人类环境是这样一种环境，在这种环境中，我们试图理解我们的极限，理解总是会降临在我们身上的意外事件，理解无情地改变我们的时间的流逝。

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This possibility bothered me as I thought it was not advisable to remain in one academic environment, and the long dark winters in Edinburgh could be rather dismal.

这种可能性让我感到困扰，因为我认为留在一个学术环境是不可取的，爱丁堡漫长而黑暗的冬天可能会相当沉闷。

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You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.

你不必总是在所谓的白盒子里展示艺术;你可以在一个展览中有一种复杂性，实际上也尊重艺术。

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But the basic difficulty still remains: It is the expansion of Federal power, about which I wish to express my alarm. How easily we embrace such business.

但是，最基本的困难仍然存在:那就是扩大联邦权力，对此我谨表示警告。我们多么容易接受这样的业务。

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The difficulty of IVF or of any fertility issues is the hope and the shattered hope, the dream that it might happen this time and then it doesn't happen.

试管婴儿或任何生育问题的困难在于希望和破灭的希望，梦想这一次可能会发生，然后就不会发生。

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Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known: books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told.

于是，我重新发现了作家们一直知道的一个道理:书中总是提到其他的书，而每个故事都讲述着一个已经被讲述过的故事。

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Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

任何一本书，只要能帮助孩子养成阅读的习惯，使阅读成为他内心深处持续不断的需求之一，对他都是有好处的。

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Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.

是的，阅读是件大事。书是一件大事。但最引人注目的是报纸。

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Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow.

糟糕的人际交流让我们成长的空间更小。

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The young need discipline and a full bookcase.

年轻人需要纪律和一个完整的书架。

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Without complexity, there's no intensity.

没有复杂性，就没有强度。

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Literature precedes genre.

文学先于流派。

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