The traces of upheavals become more impressive when one moves a little higher, when one gets even closer to the foot of the great mountain ranges. There are still plenty of shell layers. We notice them, even thicker and more solid ones.

  • -- Georges Cuvier 乔治·居维叶

当一个人爬得再高一点,当他更接近大山脚下时,动荡的痕迹就会变得更加令人印象深刻。仍然有大量的外壳层。我们注意到它们,甚至更厚更结实的。

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The principal or highest part of the mountain having changed its direction to east and west, I ascended it in such manner as to leave its most elevated ranges to the south and travelled north west over a very rough and broken country generally covered with snow.

这座山的主要或最高的部分改变了它的方向,向东和向西,我以这样的方式登上它,离开它的最高的山脉,向南,并在一个非常粗糙和破碎的国家西北旅行,通常覆盖着雪。

The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure.

偏执狂正是统治者的真实形象。唯一的区别是他们在世界上的地位。人们甚至可能认为偏执狂更令人印象深刻,因为他对自己足够了,不会被失败动摇。

Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.

任何一条道路,只要沿着它的尽头走下去,就会毫无结果。爬上一小段山来测试它是不是一座山。从山顶上,你看不见那座山。

Newspapers do a good job telling me what happened yesterday, but they'd be a lot more impressive if they could tell me what's going to happen tomorrow.

报纸能很好地告诉我昨天发生了什么,但如果它们能告诉我明天会发生什么,那就更令人印象深刻了。

There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same.

到山顶有很多路,但是风景总是一样的。