You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your energy and valuable ink.

  • -- Carl Hiaasen 卡尔·希尔森

你可以做最好的研究,提出最有力的学术论点,但如果读者没有读完第三段,你就浪费了你的精力和宝贵的墨水。

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The short-term vision is: I research on something which I can use tomorrow, and for some politicians it is even better if it's today. But if you do this, you can only do targeted research. If you only do targeted research, you lose the side-routes.

我的短期愿景是:研究一些明天可以使用的东西,对一些政客来说,如果是今天就更好了。但如果你这样做,你只能做有针对性的研究。如果你只做有针对性的研究,你就会迷失方向。

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.

伟大的思想使别人变得伟大。他们的优越性是要利用的,不是要把群众变成知识分子的附庸,不是要在他们之上建立一种精神上的专制,而是要把他们从昏睡中唤醒,帮助他们自己作出判断。

Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it is the alchemists in the laboratories who invent the sweet new kits.

我能在这里打断一下吗,因为还有另一种解释,你特别适合研究它。你知道有这样一种说法,就是实验室里的炼金术士发明了这种甜蜜的新工具。

I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.

我认为知识分子就是书呆子,对历史书感兴趣,乌托邦式的想法,诸如此类。

Don't be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it.

不要害怕犯错,你的读者可能会喜欢。

Books belong to their readers.

书是属于读者的。