We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

-- E. M. Forster E·M·福斯特

我们不关心非常贫困的人。它们是不可想象的，只有统计学家或诗人才能接近它们。

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To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of.

在实验结束后打电话给统计学家，可能仅仅是让他做一个尸检:他或许能够说出实验的死因。

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A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

诗人是这样的人，他架起通向星星的梯子——一边爬梯子一边拉提琴。

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The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist.

“诗人”一词的字面意思是“制造者”:任何没有做好的东西都不存在。

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