Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration of time and the rate of change.

  • -- William Irwin Thompson 威廉·厄文·汤普森

原始人类和人类的进化经历了数百万年而不是数十亿年,但随着语言的出现,时间和变化速度进一步加快。

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In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

在每个人的生活中,总有那么一段时间,我们内心的火焰熄灭了。然后,它会因为与另一个人的相遇而燃烧起来。我们都应该感谢那些重新点燃内在精神的人。

I'm not comfortable with just entertaining. Although I like entertaining, I also like bringing forward the truth of our times as minstrels used to in the old days.

我不喜欢只是娱乐。虽然我喜欢娱乐,我也喜欢提出我们时代的真相,就像过去的吟游诗人习惯的那样。

As soon as it sounds fine, I'm on to the next thing, man.

只要听起来不错,我马上就会做下一件事。

I bought a railroad during this period of time.

我在这段时间里买了一条铁路。