Walls, no less than writing, define civilization. They are monuments of resistance against time, like writing itself.

-- Robert Pogue Harrison 罗伯特·波格·哈里森

墙壁，和文字一样，定义了文明。它们是抵抗时间的纪念碑，就像写作本身一样。

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I don't know how it is now but the assistant stage manager had to understudy several parts. You had to be ready to go on at any time if the actor couldn't make it to the play. I didn't think anything of it.

我不知道现在情况如何，但舞台助理经理不得不替几个部分做替补。如果演员不能去看戏，你必须随时准备好继续演下去。我什么也没想。

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I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.

在过去的许多年里，我一直在思索着那些高贵的红族人，他们现在散布在这些无路可走的森林和无边无际的草原上，随着文明的到来而逐渐消失。

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I'm no good with words but I'll find ways from time to time to show you how grateful I am.

我不善言辞，但我会不时想办法向你表达我的感激之情。

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A pioneer destroys things and calls it civilization.

先驱者破坏事物并称之为文明。

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