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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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Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.

现在，我想我应该知道他一直都是有魔力的。我知道这一点，但我早该猜到，要和我一起变老，看着我们的孩子一起长大，对我的要求会太高。所以现在，他是一个传奇，当他宁愿成为一个男人。

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A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding.

从人类系统中每台计算机的数据库中抽象出来的数据的图形表示。不可思议的复杂性。光线在大脑的非空间、星系团和星系团中排列。就像城市的灯光，渐渐退去。

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I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms.

我指的是要求对另一个国家的事务进行人道主义干预的呼吁- -这是一种新的想法- -即使是在以捍卫人权和自由为借口的情况下。

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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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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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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

感受最美丽的生活意味着阅读一些美丽的东西，随时准备在语言的流动中领悟诗歌的突然闪现。

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And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

这就是我们的生活，远离了公众的纠缠，在树木中找到了语言，在奔流的小溪中找到了书籍，在石头中找到了布道，在一切事物中找到了美好。

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The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.

相信有可能爆发一场短暂的决定性战争，似乎是人类最古老、最危险的幻想之一。

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We can't really make a living doing comic books, despite the fact that would be an awfully fun way to make a living.

我们不能靠写漫画来谋生，尽管这是一种非常有趣的谋生方式。

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Mr. Fitzgerald, I believe that is how he spells his name, seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.

菲茨杰拉德先生，我相信他的名字就是这样拼写的，他似乎认为剽窃始于家庭。

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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.

如果将正交特征组合在一起，就会变得非常复杂。

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The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.

人类的物质灭绝是一种可能性。

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I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.

我读书是为了消遣，那是我学得最多的时候。

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The difficulty is capturing surprise on film.

困难之处在于如何在胶片上捕捉惊喜。

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