Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.

  • -- T. E. Lawrence 阿拉伯的劳伦斯

世人把旷野看作不毛之地,任意选择的人都可以自由居住;但事实上,每座山和山谷中都有一个人,他是公认的主人,他会迅速维护他的家庭或宗族对它的权利,以抵抗侵略。

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You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see.

你不能简单地把新东西放到一个地方。你必须吸收你周围看到的东西,土地上存在的东西,然后用这些知识和当代思维来解释你看到的东西。

Herein lies our problem. If we level that much land to grow rice and whatever, then no other animal could live there except for some insect pest species. Which is very unfortunate.

这就是我们的问题所在。如果我们夷平这么多土地来种水稻之类的,那么除了一些害虫之外,就没有其他动物能在那里生存了。这是非常不幸的。

All my life, it's been the same with men. Being a woman who is famous and adored by men is very hard for any boyfriend to handle. All my boyfriends end up insecure.

在我的一生中,男人也是如此。对于任何一个男朋友来说,成为一个被男人崇拜和崇拜的女人都是非常困难的。我所有的男朋友都没有安全感。

For each of us who appear to have had a successful experiment there are many to whom their own experiments seem barren and negative.

对于我们每一个似乎有过成功实验的人来说,他们自己的实验对许多人来说似乎是空洞和消极的。

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

人不能靠交换物品而生存,而是靠生产物品而生存。他们以工作而不是贸易为生。