Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

  • -- Bertrand Russell 罗素

在我旅行的过程中,那种认为一切值得知道的事情都是在剑桥知道的想法逐渐消失了。在这方面,我的旅行对我非常有用。

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The Athletic Association competed against the University. So there was an event. You cannot break world records unless it is an established event, and you have three timekeepers, and the whole thing is organized.

体育协会与大学比赛。所以有一个事件。你不能打破世界纪录,除非它是一个既定的事件,你有三个计时员,而且整个事情是有组织的。

Now, drama is quite useful at helping us to understand what our position is and, conversely, we might then understand why our theatre is being destroyed.

现在,戏剧在帮助我们理解我们的处境时非常有用,相反,我们可能会理解为什么我们的剧院正在被摧毁。

The only way my head was going truly somewhere else was to travel to a different life and not a different airport.

我的头要真正飞到别的地方,唯一的办法就是去一个不同的生活,而不是一个不同的机场。

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

每个人都有自己的一寸品位准则,无论走到哪里,都能得意洋洋地运用它来取乐。

At Cambridge, it was the weirdest culture. Everyone pretended they didn't do any work, yet it was so competitive.

在剑桥,这是最奇怪的文化。每个人都假装什么也没做,但竞争太激烈了。

Conservatism is more candid to behold another's worth; reform more disposed to maintain and increase its own.

保守主义更能坦率地看到别人的价值;改革更倾向于保持和增加自己的影响力。

I think it'd be useful for parents to know kind of what is the culture of an institution.

我认为让家长们了解机构的文化是很有用的。

He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.

违心服从的人仍然有他自己的意见。

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

一个好的轶事值得一卷传记。