A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.

  • -- Lafcadio Hearn 小泉八云

在我们知识较少的时代,我们认为许多事情是迷信的或无用的,但今天经过检验证明,它们对人类具有极大的价值。

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History is hard to know...but...it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time - and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.

历史很难知道,但是……似乎完全有理由认为,整整一代人的精力会时不时地在很长一段美好的闪光中迸发出来,原因是当时没有人真正理解的——回想起来,这些原因从来没有解释过究竟发生了什么。

I don't think there's ever a right time to have kids. I'm actually pretty glad it's happened quite young.

我不认为有一个合适的时间生孩子。我很高兴这事发生在年轻的时候。