When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

  • -- Walter Lippmann 沃尔特·利普曼

当把遥远的、陌生的、复杂的东西传达给广大人民群众时,真理就会受到相当大的歪曲,而且往往是根本性的歪曲。复杂变成简单,假设变成教条,相对变成绝对。

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If you want to solve very complex problems, you will have to end up letting machines work out a lot of the details for themselves, and in ways that we don't understand what they are doing.

如果你想解决非常复杂的问题,你将不得不让机器自己解决很多细节,而这些细节是我们无法理解的。

A lot of the advertisement is done by saying: first of all, have a complex about who you are.

很多广告都是这样写的:首先,要对自己有一个复杂的认识。

Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.

与神职人员既不要亲密也不要疏远。

Death is a distant rumor to the young.

对于年轻人来说,死亡是一个遥远的谣言。