The moment you have children and a mortgage you want things to work; you're locked into the human project and you want it to flourish.

  • -- Ian McEwan 伊恩·麦克尤恩

一旦你有了孩子和抵押贷款,你就想让一切正常;你被困在人类项目中,你希望它蓬勃发展。

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We cannot sacrifice innocent human life now for vague and exaggerated promises of medical treatments thirty of forty years from now. There are ways to pursue this technology and respect life at the same time.

我们不能为了三、四十年后含糊而夸张的医疗承诺而牺牲无辜的生命。有很多方法可以在追求科技的同时尊重生命。

The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same.

汽车在技术上比捆绑板更为复杂,但人们使用它们的动机有时是相同的。

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

当一个人凝视着石堆时,它就不再是石堆了,在他的心中有一座大教堂的形象。

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment pain of love lasts, a lifetime.

爱情带来的快乐只能持续片刻,而爱情带来的痛苦却能持续一生。