This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking.

  • -- Lionel Trilling 特里林

这就是学院派最大的缺点,它关注的是思想而不是思考。

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My sisters are very academically inclined so whenever they would fix me up, it would always be from someone in their world, people they would find attractive. When they came to the door in suits, it was over.

我的姐妹们在学业上很有天赋,所以每当她们给我介绍对象时,总是来自她们那个圈子里的某个人,她们会觉得这个人很有吸引力。当他们穿着西装来到门口时,一切都结束了。

Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, and organs.

传统的学术科学把人类描述为高度发达的动物和生物思维机器。我们似乎是由原子、分子、细胞、组织和器官组成的牛顿物体。

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

强迫一个人为他所不相信和厌恶的思想的传播提供资金是罪恶和专制的。

I have a lot of stuff I want to talk about and offer up. It would be odd not to have ideas about something.

我有很多东西想和大家分享。对某事没有想法是很奇怪的。

I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.

我不知道有什么伟人,除了那些为人类作出过巨大贡献的人。

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

我母亲和我之间有很多麻烦,但我认为她很喜欢。