The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts.

  • -- Derek Walcott 沃尔科特

历史的叹息从废墟中升起,而不是从风景中升起。在安的列斯群岛,除了糖园和废弃堡垒的废墟外,几乎没有什么废墟值得叹息。

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In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, 'why don't I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,' and they abandon their values.

在过去,有一些人并不富裕,但满足于他们的生活方式,整天欢笑和快乐。但当新富人们出现时,人们看着他们问,‘我为什么不也过上那样的生活,有漂亮的房子、汽车和花园呢?’他们就放弃了自己的价值观。

The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me.

我所属的那些体面的圈子里,那个体面的圈子里的所有人,那个我不知道安全的价值的圈子,都在反对我,他们知道,一旦失去或抛弃安全,就没有什么机会来代替它了。

As the new spirituality begins to become the pervasive spirituality of the planet, we'll find that we have abandoned our philosophy of contradictions in which we say we're all one but continue to try to win.

当新的灵性开始成为这个星球上无处不在的灵性时,我们会发现我们已经抛弃了我们的矛盾哲学,在这种哲学中,我们说我们都是一个整体,但仍在努力争取胜利。

That which is deferred is not abandoned.

被推迟的事不会被放弃。