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Why has not anyone seen that fossils alone gave birth to a theory about the formation of the earth, that without them, no one would have ever dreamed that there were successive epochs in the formation of the globe.

  • -- Georges Cuvier 乔治·居维叶

为什么没有人看到化石本身就产生了一种关于地球形成的理论呢?如果没有化石，没有人会想到地球的形成会有连续的时代。

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When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.

当你从一幅肖像开始，通过连续的消除，寻找一个纯粹的形式，一个清晰的体积，你不可避免地会到达鸡蛋。同样地，从鸡蛋开始，按照同样的过程反过来，一个人以肖像结束。

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The metropolis reveals itself as one of those great historical formations in which opposing streams which enclose life unfold, as well as join one another with equal right.

大都市展现了自己作为一个伟大的历史形成，在其中对立的溪流包围着生活展开，并以平等的权利连接在一起。

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We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.

我们是如此抽象的受害者，地球在燃烧，我们几乎不能唤醒自己漫步穿过房间，看看恒温器。

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For we must be one thing or the other, an asset or a liability, the sinew in your wing to help you soar, or the chain to bind you to earth.

因为我们必须是这样或那样的东西，一种资产或一种负债，是帮助你飞翔的翅膀上的腱，还是把你束缚在地球上的锁链。

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Our motives are far more successfully hidden from ourselves than they are from others.

我们的动机对自己隐藏得比对别人隐藏得更成功。

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A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

一个人的成长可以从他朋友连续不断的唱诗班中看到。

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Celebrate your success and find humor in your failures.

庆祝你的成功，在失败中寻找幽默。

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