Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.

  • -- Frederick Turner 弗雷德里克·特纳

每个时代都试图形成自己对过去的概念。每一个时代都参照其所处时代的最高条件,重新书写过去的历史。

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I don't know what's going to happen. I'm flavor of the month at the moment, but somebody else is going to roll around the corner in three months' time. I just want to keep working. I can't stop!

我不知道会发生什么。我现在是这个月的风云人物,但是再过三个月就会有别人来接替我的工作了。我只是想继续工作。我不能停止!

Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable.

在边界条件下,将公地作为粪池并不会对公众造成伤害,因为没有公共,同样的行为在大都市是无法容忍的。

The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.

目标受众回到概念。这意味着产前护理,安全分娩,产后检查,以及儿科的日常工作。

Mind and cosmos: Why the materialist Neo-Darwinian conception of nature is almost certainly false.

心灵与宇宙:为什么唯物主义新达尔文主义的自然概念几乎肯定是错误的。

No time to marry, no time to settle down; I'm a young woman, and I ain't done runnin' around.

没有时间结婚,没有时间安定下来;我是个年轻的女人,我没有闲着没事干。

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

道德准则能适应环境条件。