A society that has made "nostalgia" a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.

  • -- Christopher Lasch 克里斯托弗.拉什

一个把“怀旧”变成文化交流中有销路的商品的社会,很快否定了过去的生活在任何重要方面都比今天的生活更好的说法。

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We don't have enough people going into those fields and there is a high burnout rate in some health care professions, so it is very important that we get more people into the pipeline right now.

我们没有足够多的人进入这些领域,而且在一些医疗保健行业,职业倦怠率很高,所以现在让更多的人进入这个行业非常重要。

The countries that share this conception should be able to go further together, without excluding the others, since they can still live in a greater community of exchange and co-operation.

共享这一理念的国家应该能够在不排斥其他国家的情况下走得更远,因为它们仍然可以生活在一个更大的交流与合作社区中。

I think one of the major things a director has to do is to know his subject matter, the subject matter of his script, know the truth and the reality of it. That's very important.

我认为一个导演要做的主要事情之一就是了解他的主题,他剧本的主题,了解真相和现实。这是非常重要的。

It's ironic that in our culture everyone's biggest complaint is about not having enough time; yet nothing terrifies us more than the thought of eternity.

讽刺的是,在我们的文化中,每个人最大的抱怨就是没有足够的时间;然而,没有什么比想到永生更让我们害怕的了。

Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country.

数学没有种族和地理界限;对于数学来说,文化世界是一个国家。

I would never exchange my life with anybody else's.

我永远不会用我的生命去交换别人的生命。