We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.

  • -- Victor Hugo 维克多雨果

我们用望远镜看过去,用显微镜看现在。因此,目前的情况显然是极其恶劣的。

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As the son of a feminist mother, I grew up with the idea that work was a sort of salvation for women as it would give them freedom from the domestic grind. Now it seems work is a form of slavery, undertaken out of apparent compulsion rather than choice.

作为一个女权主义者母亲的儿子,我从小就有这样的想法:工作对女性来说是一种救赎,因为它能让她们从家务中解放出来。现在看来,工作是奴役的一种形式,是出于明显的强迫而不是选择。

I think if I weren't so squeamish, I would have been some sort of forensic analyst. And I can't do anything with a microscope, because then I start thinking about the world of germs around us.

我想如果我不是那么神经质的话,我可能已经是某种法医分析师了。我不能用显微镜做任何事,因为我开始思考我们周围的细菌世界。

I'm a serial monogamist. I'm not one of those people that can date loads of people at the same time, it's all too complicated.

我是一个连环的一夫一妻制者。我不是那种可以同时和很多人约会的人,这太复杂了。

I have a fine lot of telescopes. I have one with which I can see the Mountains in the Moon.

我有很多很好的望远镜。我有一个可以看到月亮上的山。

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

正是对及时修理的忽视使重建成为必要。