Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is independent of all experience in its origin, though constantly combined with experience in its exercise.

  • -- William Whewell 惠威尔

基本思想不是经验的结果,而是头脑的特定结构和活动的结果,这种结构和活动独立于一切经验的起源,尽管在实践中不断地与经验相结合。

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The idea of infection began to be taken far more seriously than it ever had before. Hospitals transformed themselves in response to the new plague - sometimes for the better, but often for the worse, as when, in fear, they cast their ulcerated patients out into the streets.

人们对感染的看法比以往任何时候都更加认真。面对新的瘟疫,医院进行了自我改造——有时是向好的方面发展,但往往是向坏的方面发展,比如在恐惧中,他们把溃烂的病人扔到街上。

There is a fundamental situation in which the country has reached rock bottom, that a mother can't send her children out of the house in the morning. The country has reached rock bottom and this needs to be changed.

有一个基本的情况,这个国家已经到了最低点,一个母亲不能在早上把她的孩子送出门。这个国家已经跌到了谷底,这一点需要改变。

When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always.

当我最终遇到我的白马王子,我不知道他的名字总是。

The fundamental issue is the moral issue.

根本问题是道德问题。