It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.

  • -- E. T. A. Hoffmann E·T·A·霍夫曼

与不可抗拒的时间的力量作斗争是没有用的,时间通过不断的破坏过程不断地创造着。

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It is not as though the process of production holds any mystery for me, I know exactly what it involves and I know the predominant concern in shooting one of those things is production values - or as they would say, seeing it all up there on screen.

并不是说制作过程对我来说有什么神秘之处,我清楚地知道它涉及到什么,我知道在拍摄这些东西的时候,最主要的关注点是制作价值——或者就像他们会说的,在屏幕上看到这一切。

There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

不仅失败的感觉越来越普遍,而且徒劳无益的感觉也越来越普遍。立法过程变成了一场残酷的空壳游戏,服务体系变成了官僚主义的迷宫,效率低下,令人费解,难以进入。

I smiled, and you winked. I think. Perhaps you merely blink with one eye at a time.

我微笑,你眨眼。我认为。也许你一次只眨一只眼睛。

Destruction was effected after visitation, for visitation always precedes.

毁灭发生在探访之后,因为探访总是先于探访。

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

对过去的破坏也许是所有罪行中最大的罪行。

God sometimes moves mountains one pebble at a time.

上帝有时一次移走一颗石子。