Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.

  • -- George Henry Lewes 乔治·亨利·路易斯

文学既是社会进步的原因,又是社会进步的结果。

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The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.

在过去的四五百年里,欧洲人与非洲的接触产生了大量的文学作品,这些作品把非洲描述得非常糟糕,用非常耸人听闻的语言描述非洲人。其原因与为奴隶贸易和奴隶制辩护的需要有关。

No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality.

没有哪两种语言有足够的相似性,可以被认为代表了相同的社会现实。

Funny way to spend your life, though, studying another chap's versifying.

不过,研究另一个人的版本是一种有趣的生活方式。