The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli.

-- Georg Simmel 齐美尔

都市型个性的心理基础在于神经刺激的强化，这是由外部和内部刺激的迅速和不间断的变化所导致的。

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In order to accommodate to change and to the contrast of phenomena, the intellect does not require any shocks and inner upheavals; it is only through such upheavals that the more conservative mind could accommodate to the metropolitan rhythm of events.

为了适应变化和现象的对比，智力不需要任何冲击和内在的剧变;只有经历了这样的巨变，保守的人才能适应大都市的节奏。

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The old man, of whom we know how he has become what he is, is more of an individual than the young man; for it is only in the course of an eventful life that men are differentiated into full individuality.

我们知道老人是怎样变成现在这个样子的，他比年轻人更有个性;因为只有在多事的人生过程中，人们才会分化成完全的个性。

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Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into a stable and impersonal time schedule.

因此，如果没有把所有的活动和相互关系最准时地整合到一个稳定而客观的时间表中，都市生活的技巧是无法想象的。

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It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

只有对个人，灵魂才会被赋予。

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