Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above.

  • -- Czeslaw Milosz 米洛斯

人类的物质似乎有一个主要的缺陷:它不喜欢仅仅被认为是人类的物质。它发现很难忍受这种感觉,即它必须被动地接受来自上面的变化。

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We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.

我们生活在机器时代。历史上,喜剧演员第一次被迫为自己提供笑话和喜剧素材来与机器竞争。不管他知不知道,这位喜剧演员都在跑步机上逐渐被人遗忘。

Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling.

在一个自由国家的富裕阶层和贫穷阶层之间,相互尊重的对立远比一方面的同情和另一方面的依赖要健康得多。

It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

这是一件令人愉快的事情,并为那些为人类物种的逐渐退化而斗争的人提供了一个完整的答案,即每一个出生在这个世界上的婴儿都比上一个更好。

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands.

如果太阳、月亮和星星恰好在人类掠夺者的手中,它们早就消失了。

As the sunshine in the sky warms you on the outside, let the sunshine in your heart warm you on the inside.

就像天空中的阳光从外面温暖你一样,让你内心的阳光从里面温暖你。

The word of man is the most durable of all material.

人的话语是所有物质中最耐久的。