We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

-- E. M. Forster E·M·福斯特

我们不关心非常贫困的人。它们是不可想象的，只有统计学家或诗人才能接近它们。

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To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of.

在实验结束后打电话给统计学家，可能仅仅是让他做一个尸检:他或许能够说出实验的死因。

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I guess there is also an element of deliberate change involved. Each of my books has been, at least from my point of view, radically different from the last.

我想这其中也包含了刻意改变的因素。至少在我看来，我的每一本书都与上一本书截然不同。

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The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

一个诗人的证明是，他的祖国对他的吸收就像他对祖国的吸收一样深情。

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