The Boomers will eventually have to accept that it is not possible to stay forever young or to stop aging. But it is possible, by committing to show up for others in community after community, to earn a measure of immortality.

  • -- Eric Liu 刘耀威

婴儿潮一代最终将不得不接受这样一个事实:永远年轻或停止衰老是不可能的。但是,通过承诺在一个又一个社区中为他人露面,有可能获得某种程度的不朽。

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The earth is ready, the time is ripe, for the authoritative expression of the feminine as well as the masculine interpretation of that common social consensus which is slowly writing justice in the State and fraternity in the social order.

地球已经准备好了,时机已经成熟,可以权威地表达女性以及男性对共同社会共识的解释,这种共识正在慢慢地在国家中书写正义,在社会秩序中书写友爱。

When a language creates as it does a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.

当一种语言在当下创造出一个共同体时,它只能通过一个介于现在和过去之间的共同体来实现。