The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.

  • -- Washington Irving 华盛顿欧文

今天的偶像把昨天的英雄从我们的记忆中推开;反过来,他也将被明天的继任者所取代。

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Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this country. I don't know how much history young women today know about those battles.

今天的年轻女性往往对发生在这个国家的真正战斗没有多少感激之情。我不知道今天的年轻女性对这些战争了解多少。

I think what's really amazing is that given the scale of the web and getting the compute power we have today, we're starting to see things that appear intelligent but actually aren't semantically intelligent.

我认为真正令人惊奇的是,考虑到网络的规模和我们今天所拥有的计算能力,我们开始看到一些看起来很智能但实际上并不具备语义智能的东西。

They were marketing me as a teen idol, when the stuff on the record was not what teen idols were doing at the time.

他们把我当作一个青少年偶像来推销,而唱片上的东西并不是青少年偶像当时在做什么。

The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individually.

我们每个人的成功对我们所有人都有利,我们每个人的成功对我们每个人都有利。

Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.

回忆不是我能唤起的东西,它只是来了,而我是它的仆人。

I don't need a successor, only willing hands to accept the torch for a new generation.

我不需要继任者,只愿意亲手接过新一代的火炬。

I don't ask for an apology because it's only tomorrow's fish-and-chip paper.

我不要求道歉,因为这只是明天的报纸。

I was a teen idol and that has a short shelf life.

我是一个青少年偶像,但它的保质期很短。

Integrity is the essence of everything successful.

诚信是一切成功的本质。

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.

你今天所做的可以改善你所有的明天。

I am not a hero. Life has not required it of me.

我不是英雄。生活并不要求我这样做。

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

放弃:平庸的英雄主义。