Custom adapts itself to expediency.

  • -- Tacitus 塔西托斯

习惯适应权宜。

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Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love.

不要让权宜之计说服你。这是一条通往遗忘的漫长之路。这是一条痛苦的道路,一步一步地毁灭,一点一点地毁灭,就像河流创造了一个峡谷,我们热爱的生活方式。

Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection.

动物能够适应问题并做出发明,但往往并不比自然选择发挥作用的速度快——在自然选择的例子中,世界充当着自己的模拟器。

An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.

提升目标感不仅是个人成就的动力,也是防止权宜之计和不当行为的必要保障。

As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.

作为人类,我们确实会改变、成长、适应,甚至学习,变得更聪明。