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Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

  • -- Lionel Trilling 特里林

文学是一种人类活动，它对多样性、可能性、复杂性和艰巨性进行了最全面、最精确的描述。

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We have a picture for how complexity arises, because if the universe is computationally capable, maybe we shouldn't be so surprised that things are so entirely out of control.

我们有一幅复杂性是如何产生的图，因为如果宇宙具有计算能力，也许我们不应该对事情完全失控感到惊讶。

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This possibility bothered me as I thought it was not advisable to remain in one academic environment, and the long dark winters in Edinburgh could be rather dismal.

这种可能性让我感到困扰，因为我认为留在一个学术环境是不可取的，爱丁堡漫长而黑暗的冬天可能会相当沉闷。

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He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say.

他开始以一种我能认出来的方式看着我:那是我看一本新书的方式，一本我以前从未读过的书，一本让我惊讶不已的书。

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I think when I was on the corporate ladder, it was very difficult to maintain the hours. It's a little easier when you have you're an entrepreneur.

我想，当我在公司的阶梯上时，维持工作时间是非常困难的。如果你是一名企业家，这就容易多了。

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Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.

书是终极的哑巴:把它们放下，它们会永远等你;关注他们，他们也会爱你。

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Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

要明白，选择自己道路的权利是一种神圣的特权。使用它。住在的可能性。

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I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected.

我一直认为，我应该毫不费力地使我的权利得到尊重。

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Well, of course, people are only human... But it really does not seem much for them to be.

当然，人只是人……但对他们来说，这似乎并不算什么。

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Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

文学想象是作家向爱书者提供的审美对象。

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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

有些书不应该被遗忘;没有一个是不值得记住的。

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Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.

有些书太熟悉了，读起来就像回到了家。

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Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

书籍是文学的金钱，但只是科学的计数器。

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Chaos is complexity viewed through a reductionist filter.

混沌是通过还原论过滤器观察的复杂性。

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I'm human; that's what people don't realize.

我是人;这是人们没有意识到的。

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