Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.

  • -- Robert Alwyn Petrie Hewison 罗伯特·阿尔文·皮特里·休伊森

后现代主义是去掉了乐观主义的现代主义。

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I've never understood activity holidays since we seem to have far too much activity in our daily lives as it is. Find a culture where loafing is the order of the day and where they don't understand our need to be constantly doing things. Find somewhere you can have a hammock holiday.

我从来没有理解过活动假期,因为我们在日常生活中似乎有太多的活动。寻找一种文化,在这种文化中,游手好闲是家常便饭,他们不理解我们需要不断地做事。找一个你可以享受吊床假期的地方。

By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.

我所说的自由,是指确保每个人在做他认为是他的职责的事情时受到保护,不受权威、多数、习俗和意见的影响。

What are they going to do to me that they haven't done already? They took away my entire past. They took away my entire future. What's left for them to take?

他们要对我做什么他们还没有做的?他们带走了我的全部过去。他们夺走了我的未来。他们还能拿什么?

We have hardly an adequate idea how all-powerful law is in forming public opinion, in giving tone and character to the mass of society.

我们对全能的法律在形成公众舆论、在给社会大众以基调和特征方面是如何发挥作用几乎一无所知。

One of the reasons for going back into the past is that it's almost the only place that there's any drama.

回到过去的原因之一是这里几乎是唯一有戏剧的地方。

My confidence comes from the daily grind - training my butt off day in and day out.

我的信心来自于每天的苦差事——日复一日地训练我的屁股。