All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!

-- T. E. Lawrence 阿拉伯的劳伦斯

世界上所有的修改都不能挽救一份糟糕的初稿，因为事物的结构在最初的构思中就已经形成，或者还没有形成，修改只会影响细节和装饰，唉!

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Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.

每个时代都试图形成自己对过去的概念。每一个时代都参照其所处时代的最高条件，重新书写过去的历史。

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I think architecture, to be really intense and fulfilling, doesn't have to be large.

我认为建筑，要真正的紧张和充实，并不一定要很大。

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I foster a sorrowful conception of affection. Make no sacrifices.

我产生了一种伤感的感情。没有牺牲。

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Architecture begins where engineering ends.

建筑始于工程的终点。

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