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Television is not vulgar because people are vulgar; it is vulgar because people are similar in their prurient interests and sharply differentiated in their civilized concerns.

  • -- George Gilder 基尔德

电视并不因为人们粗俗而粗俗;这是粗俗的，因为人们在他们的好色的利益上是相似的，在他们的文明的关注上是截然不同的。

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It's an unusual opportunity, a chance for so many people to share in the excitement and the fun of the fact that we may be on to hints as to what the Universe is made out of. I guess the whole point of a prize like this is to be able to get that out into the community.

这是一个不寻常的机会，一个让这么多人分享兴奋和乐趣的机会，因为我们可能正在暗示宇宙是由什么构成的。我想，像这样的奖项的意义就在于能够把它推广到社会中去。

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The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.

历史的概念本身就意味着学者和读者。如果没有一代文明人来研究历史，保存历史记录，吸取历史教训，并把它们与自身的问题联系起来，历史也将失去其意义。

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Yet, upon the whole, the space I traversed is unlikely to become the haunt of civilized man, or will only become so in isolated spots, as a chain of connection to a more fertile country; if such a country exist to the westward.

然而，总的来说，我所走过的这片土地不太可能成为文明人常去的地方，或者只会成为一个孤立的地方，作为与一个更富饶的国家连接的纽带;如果这样一个国家存在于西部。

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We are reinventing the world. We've set the ball spinning with little concern for where and how it's going to stop.

我们正在重塑世界。我们让球旋转，而不关心它将在哪里和如何停止。

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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

有良心的人往往在最痛苦的过程中看到自己的责任。

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It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.

为伟大而激动是庸俗人的恶习。

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Leaking of classified material is a concern.

机密材料的泄露令人担忧。

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