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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A man must serve his time to every trade Save censure---critics all are ready made. Take hackneyed jokes from Miller, got by rote, With just enough of learning to misquote.

一个人必须为他的每一笔交易服务,除了指责——所有的批评都准备好了。就拿米勒的那些老掉牙的笑话来说吧,这些笑话都是死记硬背的,你只需要学习足够多的知识就能错误地引用。

Two years work wasted, I have been breeding those flies for all that time and I've got nothing out of it.

浪费了两年的时间,我一直在饲养那些苍蝇,却一无所获。