On some levels, you can also have this feeling that we are being duped, somehow. And that the world is at play for something you would understand more if it were pure ideology. It is a very strange time and also basic things are being taken away.

  • -- Edwidge Danticat 爱德薇芝·丹蒂凯特

在某种程度上,你也会有这样的感觉,我们被骗了。如果纯粹是意识形态,你就会更了解这个世界。这是一个非常奇怪的时期,基本的东西都被拿走了。

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The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.

我们所有人都面临的问题是,我们将在什么样的文化中度过余生,然后将其传承给下一代——是接受这些最基本的价值观,还是因为没有这些价值观而崩溃。

I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.

我不喜欢传播任何神秘的东西,因为我认为这都是浪费时间;而是我们所有人都能看到和知道的东西。

It's the greatest feeling in the world to know that he coudn't let go of you either.

知道他也不能放开你,这是世界上最伟大的感觉。

Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.

人类有一种本领,能够精确地选择对自己最不利的事情。

In order to work well, markets need a basic level of trust.

为了更好地运作,市场需要一个基本的信任水平。

In my case, things have pretty much been handed to me.

就我而言,很多东西都已经交给了我。

I ride my horses three to four times a week.

我每周骑马三到四次。

A feeling of emulsion swept over me.

一种乳剂的感觉席卷了我。