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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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Our live set's become increasingly complex recently; we've been doing stuff that's been vastly too much information for most people to deal with and I think it's quite interesting watching how people behave in those situations, under those circumstances.

我们的现场直播最近变得越来越复杂;我们所做的事情对大多数人来说信息量太大了，我认为观察人们在这种情况下的行为非常有趣。

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A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.

一个花园是一个审美和造型意图的综合体;对于景观艺术家来说，植物不仅是一种稀有的、不寻常的、普通的或注定要消失的植物，而且它本身也是一种颜色、一种形状、一个体量或一种阿拉伯风格。

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It is sound judgment to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.

希望在不远的将来，我们能够理解像星星这样简单的东西，这是明智的判断。

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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

一个人可以理解宇宙，但永远无法理解自我;自我比任何星星都遥远。

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