The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.

  • -- Thomas Beall Griffith 托马斯·比尔·格里菲斯

新闻被编排、预测、报道、分析,直到所有的兴趣都被榨干,并被一些新的新奇事物所抛弃。

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‘Before she came,’ said a soldier, ‘there was cuss in’ and swear in’, but after that it was ’oly as a church.’ The most cherished privilege of the fighting man was abandoned for the sake of Miss Nightingale.

“在她来之前,”一个士兵说,“人们骂她,骂她,骂她,但是在那以后,教堂就变成了教堂。为了南丁格尔小姐,这个战士最宝贵的特权被放弃了。

The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind.

事实上,每一个思想家,每一个哲学家,当他因为实际的需要而被迫放弃他片面的知识工作的时候,就立即回到人类的一般观点上来。

The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable.

科学的本质是,它总是愿意为了一个更好的想法而放弃一个既定的想法;神学的本质在于它认为自己的真理是永恒不变的。

News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead.

新闻是一个什么都不在乎的人想读的东西。在他看之前都是新闻。之后它就死了。

TV news is what you want it to be, and if you want it to be different, take a look at what you watch.

电视新闻是你想要的,如果你想让它有所不同,看看你在看什么。

My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.

在我的一生中,我一直担心自己会被抛弃。