We are comfortable with the fact that we cannot know personally what happened in the world before we were born, yet we are uncomfortable with the notion that we will stop engaging with time at some point in the future.

  • -- John Barton 约翰·巴顿

我们对自己在出生之前无法亲身了解世界上发生了什么感到放心,但我们对自己在未来某一时刻将停止与时间打交道的想法感到不安。

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Leibniz never married; he had considered it at the age of fifty, but the person he had in mind desired time to think about it. This gave Leibniz time to reflect, also, and he didn’t marry.

莱布尼茨从未结婚;他在五十岁时就考虑过这个问题,但他心目中的那个人却渴望有时间来考虑这个问题。这也给了莱布尼茨思考的时间,他也没有结婚。

The idea that maybe you don't have to own a car if you only need one occasionally may catch on, just like time-sharing caught on in real estate.

如果你只是偶尔需要一辆车,也许你不必拥有一辆车,这种想法可能会流行起来,就像分时度假在房地产中流行一样。