You've got to be a thermostat rather than a thermometer. A thermostat shapes the climate of opinion; a thermometer just reflects it.

  • -- Cornel West 康奈尔·韦斯特

你必须是恒温器而不是温度计。恒温器塑造舆论氛围;温度计刚好能反射它。

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You're allowed to rip-off another score so close that it's ridiculous. In my opinion it's ridiculous, how closely one can just rip-off a score that happened a year or two earlier.

你被允许再抄一分,差得太近了,太可笑了。在我看来,这是荒谬的,一个人可以如此密切地剽窃发生在一两年前的一个分数。

Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.

那些开始强制消除异见者的人很快就会发现自己在消灭异见者。强制的意见统一只能达到墓地的一致。

There is no question that climate change is happening; the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.

毫无疑问,气候变化正在发生;唯一有争议的是人类在其中扮演了什么角色。

Climate change is obviously happening and there is obviously a man-made contribution.

气候变化显然正在发生,这显然是人为造成的。