My ideas about time all developed from the realization that if nothing were to change we could not say that time passes. Change is primary, time, if it exists at all, is something we deduce from it.

  • -- Julian Barbour 朱利安·巴伯

我对时间的概念都是从这样一种认识发展而来的:如果什么都不改变,我们就不能说时间流逝了。变化是首要的,时间,如果它存在的话,是我们从中推断出来的。

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In order to be able to give a girlfriend the amount of time she deserves, you would need time, and I just can't give her that. So, rather than being selfish or stupid enough to go into a relationship, it's just been easier to be single.

为了能给女朋友足够的时间,你需要时间,而我不能给她。所以,与其自私或愚蠢到去谈恋爱,单身更容易。

The plan we developed to deal with al Qaeda depended on developing sources of human and technical intelligence that could give us insights into his plans at the tactical level. This is easy to say but hard to accomplish.

我们制定的对付基地组织的计划依赖于开发人力和技术情报来源,这些情报可以让我们从战术层面了解他的计划。这说起来容易,做起来难。

When a man goes in for politics over here, he has no time to labour, and any man that labours has no time to fool with politics. Over there, politics is an obligation; over here it’s a business.

当一个人在这里搞政治时,他没有时间去劳动,而任何劳动的人也没有时间去玩弄政治。在那里,政治是一种义务;这里是生意。

I have said consistently both in my papers and in my speeches - which you heard in the primary campaign - that I will continue to phase out the Capital Stock and Franchise tax.

我一直在我的论文和演讲中说,我将继续逐步取消股本税和特许经营税。

We have developed overlays for the keys of the cash registers with the help of the Braille Institute, so that blind crew members can take orders and help our guests.

在布莱叶盲文学院的帮助下,我们为收银机的钥匙设计了叠加,这样盲人工作人员就可以接受命令并帮助我们的客人。

Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cortex, and the foundation of intelligence.

预测不仅仅是你的大脑所做的事情之一。它是新皮质的主要功能,也是智力的基础。

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

一般来说,自由可以被定义为实现愿望没有障碍。

A lecture is much more of a dialogue than many of you probably realize.

演讲比你们许多人可能意识到的更像是对话。