Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.

  • -- J. G. Ballard 巴拉德

科技在我们身边繁衍生息。在越来越大的程度上,它们决定了我们说话和思考的语言。我们要么使用这些语言,要么保持沉默。

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I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

我似乎只是一个在海滨玩耍的孩子,不时地在一块比平常更光滑的卵石或更美丽的贝壳中寻找乐趣,而真理的大海却在我面前一片未被发现的汪洋大海。

So by the time I got to Michigan I was a stutterer. I couldn't talk. So my first year of school was my first mute year and then those mute years continued until I got to high school.

所以当我来到密歇根的时候,我已经是一个口吃者了。我不能说话。所以我上学的第一年是我第一个哑巴年,然后那些哑巴年一直持续到我上高中。

I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.

我有三种恐惧症,如果我能消除它们,它们会使我的生活像十四行诗一样流畅,但又像排水沟里的水一样枯燥:我讨厌睡觉,我讨厌起床,我讨厌一个人呆着。

There are fads ion science, just as there are fads in clothes.

科学有时尚,就像衣服有时尚一样。