I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning.

-- Ian Williams 伊恩·威廉姆斯

我不喜欢给几代人起名字。这就像在旋转的唱片上读一首歌的名字。

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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。

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It's kind of like trying to make straight lines from curves, but involving shapes that sort of dictate what the curves are, if you like, and the difference between two separate pieces creates a third transitional piece if you like.

这有点像试图从曲线中画出直线，但是涉及到形状，如果你喜欢的话，这些形状决定了这些曲线是什么，如果你喜欢的话，两个独立的部分之间的差异创造了第三个过渡部分。

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Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.

进步是每一代人对其前辈犯下的不公。

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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

我不会浪费时间去延长生命。

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