After having dispatched a meal, I went ashore, and found no habitation save a single house, and that without an occupant; we had no doubt that the people had fled in terror at our approach, as the house was completely furnished.

  • -- Christopher Columbus 克里斯托弗·哥伦布

吃完饭,我上了岸,除了一所没有人住的房子外,我没有找到别的住处。我们毫不怀疑,当我们走近时,人们已经惊恐地逃走了,因为房子里已经布置得很齐全了。

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To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.

怀疑你自己的死亡就是知道恐怖的开始,无可辩驳地知道你是会死的就是知道恐怖的结束。

I will tell you, I'm a lousy cook, but I think I'm a pretty good judge of a good meal.

我要告诉你,我的厨艺很差,但是我认为我能很好地判断一顿好饭。

And the terror itself is an example of the world's uncontrollability.

而恐怖本身就是世界无法控制的一个例子。

When I am done with this meal you can have my life. It is heaven.

当我吃完这顿饭,你可以拥有我的生命。它是天堂。