How to respect tradition and to innovate at the same time? What a difficult challenge!

  • -- I. M. Pei 贝聿铭

如何在尊重传统的同时创新?多么困难的挑战啊!

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It's kind of a tradition that you get a rookie, put him in the middle, wrap your arms and legs around him, then douse him with everything you can get a hold of - shaving cream, ketchup, mustard, everything. It's kind of like a pie in the face after a guy is successful.

这是一种传统,你找一个新手,把他放在中间,用胳膊和腿抱住他,然后把你能弄到的所有东西都浇在他身上——刮胡膏,番茄酱,芥末,所有的东西。这有点像一个人成功后脸上的馅饼。

Perhaps it is indeed time that I began to look at this whole matter of bantering more enthusiastically. After all, when we think about it, it is not such a foolish thing to indulge in---particularly if it is the case that in bantering lies the key to human warmth.

也许是时候让我更热情地看待这整件事了。毕竟,当我们思考这个问题时,沉迷于其中并不是一件愚蠢的事情——尤其是如果玩笑是人类温暖的关键的话。

By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching.

在我上大学的时候,我对种族歧视问题变得非常警觉,我记得我最初的一次写作尝试与私刑有关。

You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.

你必须与时俱进,准备打破传统。