That's the fundamental flaw in the illusion that writers like to maintain, the idea that we can craft anything approaching the truth.

  • -- Carolyn Parkhurst 卡罗琳·帕克丝特

这是作家们喜欢坚持的幻想的根本缺陷,他们认为我们可以创造出任何接近真相的东西。

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Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?

当然,相对引用频率并不能衡量相对重要性。谁没有想过要写一篇如此基础的论文,以至于很快大家都知道了,却没有人引用它呢?

In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim - that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people.

在我们所有的交往中;在我们所有的协议中,让我们永远不要忘记这一基本原则,即一切权力最初是属于人民的,因此也是来自人民的。