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I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.

  • -- Clifford Geertz 吉尔兹

我很难说服学生们，他们去北非是为了了解北非人，而不是为了了解他们自己。

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A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.

书是一种脆弱的生物，它经受着时间的磨损，它害怕啮齿动物、大自然和笨拙的双手。因此，图书馆员不仅要保护图书不受人类的侵害，还要保护图书不受自然的侵害，并把自己的生命奉献给这场与遗忘力量的战争。

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I think I'm a really good partner and very sensitive to the other person's feelings. I want somebody else to be comfortable, to understand about my job, and if they want to come on a set and see me work, they always can.

我认为我是一个非常好的伴侣，对他人的感受非常敏感。我想让其他人感到舒服，理解我的工作，如果他们想要来片场看我工作，他们总是可以的。

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The Marcos era was the golden time for the Philippines. We had the lowest crime rate in the world in Manila and real development then. At last, people are starting to understand this.

马科斯时代是菲律宾的黄金时代。当时马尼拉的犯罪率是世界上最低的，经济也得到了真正的发展。人们终于开始明白这一点了。

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The North African mule talks always of his mother's brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more reputable.

北非的骡子总是谈论他母亲的兄弟马，但从不谈论他的父亲驴，而更喜欢那些据说更有名望的人。

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The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.

非洲人是我的兄弟，但他是我几个世纪以来的弟弟。

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Grammar is not a time of waste.

语法不是浪费时间。

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