In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.

  • -- Theodor W. Adorno 狄奥多·阿多诺

在他完全无能为力的状态下,个人把他剩下的时间看作是一个短暂的缓刑。

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Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.

浪费比损失更糟糕。每一个自称有能力的人都会把浪费的问题不断地摆在面前,这一时刻即将来临。节俭的范围是无限的。

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

因为在人类变化和进步的伟大空间里,有一段短暂的时间,某些人类的普遍目标在他身上得到了令人满意的体现。

A well chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure.

一本精心挑选的选集是一个完整的药房,为更常见的精神疾病的药物,并可以用于预防和治疗。

If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements.

如果个人要在当代秩序中感到幸福,他必须对新的价值观和新的安排持开放的态度。

I was always fascinated by people who are considered completely normal, because i find them the weirdest of all.

我总是着迷于那些被认为是完全正常的人,因为我发现他们是所有人中最奇怪的。

In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state.

然而,在市场经济中,个人有可能逃脱国家的权力。

It seems like bands have stopped making timeless, great rock albums like they did back in the day.

似乎乐队不再像过去那样制作永恒的、伟大的摇滚专辑了。

They don't want to be reminded that there is an authority higher than the authority of the state.

他们不想被提醒有一个高于国家权力的权威。

The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.

现代国家不再拥有任何东西,只有权利;它不再承认义务。

I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.

我一度被误认为是床上功夫不错的人,这非常非常棒。