Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

  • -- George Orwell 乔治·奥威尔

每一代人都认为自己比前一代人更聪明,比后一代人更聪明。

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The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.

历史的概念本身就意味着学者和读者。如果没有一代文明人来研究历史,保存历史记录,吸取历史教训,并把它们与自身的问题联系起来,历史也将失去其意义。

Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about.

我们这一代人有着惊人的现实主义,但与此同时,他们喜欢抱怨,而不是真正的改变。因为,如果它真的改变了,那么它就没有什么可抱怨的了。

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

当他们除了大海什么也看不见的时候,他们就认为没有陆地,这是很不善于发现的人。

Only in your imagination can you revise.

只有在你的想象中,你才能修改。