I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel. I'm not a novelist, I'm a writer.

  • -- Aleksandar Hemon 亚历山大·黑蒙

当有人叫我小说家时,我总是抗拒:这暗示了小说固有的某种优越性。我不是小说家,我是作家。

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The best method for preventing destructive cult involvement is preventative education. If students and the public at large are more aware of destructive groups beforehand they may better understand and resist their recruitment efforts.

预防邪教破坏的最好方法是预防性教育。如果学生和公众事先对破坏性群体有更多的了解,他们可能会更好地理解并抵制他们的招聘努力。

This implies that the laws governing organic cohesion, the organization leading from the part to the whole, represent a biological uncertainty, indeed an uncertainty of the first order.

这意味着支配有机凝聚力的法律,即从部分到整体的组织,代表着一种生物学上的不确定性,实际上是一种一级的不确定性。

The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.

对完美的追求总是意味着明确的贵族,这是一个努力的目标,就像一个崇高的哲学,一个庄严的公民政治或伟大的艺术。

The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.

对美德的考验是抵制一切邪恶的诱惑。