I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized.

  • -- Stephen Jay Gould 斯蒂芬·杰·古尔德

我不认为学术写作有多好。然而,科学过去没有那么专业化。

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Oversimplification is now a common term of reproach in academic discussions; everyone is against oversimplification. But there is no parallel term nearly as frequently used to describe the opposite phenomenon, which surely occurs as often, if not more so.

如今,在学术讨论中,过分简单化是一个常见的指责用语;每个人都反对过于简单化。但是,几乎没有一个平行术语像它那样频繁地用于描述相反的现象,而相反的现象即使没有发生得更多,也肯定会发生得同样频繁。

I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world, so that those notes and rhythms mean something to you besides just the academic way in which they fall in place.

我想说的是美学命题,它来自于对一个世界的人类元素的学习,所以这些音符和节奏对你来说,除了它们在学术上的地位之外,还有其他的意义。