This idea was also brought out very clearly by Wallace, who emphasized that apparently reasonable activities of man might very well have developed without an actual application of reasoning.

  • -- Franz Boas 弗朗茨·博阿斯

华莱士也非常清楚地提出了这一观点,他强调,人类明显合理的活动很可能在没有实际应用推理的情况下得到发展。

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It was good for us, I suppose. Those kinds of times produce qualities in us that make us better for having had them. My parents were not getting along. My mother was quite intolerant of friendships that were being developed.

我想这对我们有好处。这些时间在我们身上产生了品质,让我们因为拥有了这些品质而变得更好。我父母不和。我母亲对正在发展的友谊相当不能容忍。

I guess my idea of a good audience is one that's quiet and listens, but also that's alive: they respond, they're getting the jokes, they're with me. And that' s been happening.

我想,我心目中的好听众应该是那种安静、认真倾听的人,但同时又充满活力:他们会回应,他们会听懂笑话,他们会和我在一起。这种情况一直在发生。

Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.

合理的命令很容易遵守;形成纪律习惯的是反复无常、官僚化或简单愚蠢的要求。

You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.

你必须创造一个打破你自己模式的记录,或者至少打破别人对这个模式的看法。

I know of no society in recorded history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable.

据我所知,在有记载的历史上,没有一个社会曾因其人民变得过于理性而遭受苦难。

Warfare has been marvelously developed. It will soon be impossible to raise it to further heights.

战争得到了惊人的发展。很快就不可能把它提高到更高的水平。