Each building has to be beautiful, but cheap and fast, but it lasts forever. That is already an incredible battery of seemingly contradictory demands. So yes, I'm definitely perhaps contradictory person, but I operate in very contradictory times.

  • -- Rem Koolhaas 雷姆·库哈斯

每一栋建筑都必须美观、便宜、快捷,但它却经久耐用。这已经是一连串看似矛盾的要求,令人难以置信。所以,是的,我确实是一个矛盾的人,但我是在非常矛盾的时期工作的。

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It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a level just below its own; for that means continual pressure downward, additional difficulty to be overcome in the struggle to maintain reasonable rates of wages.

任何工人的身体永远挂在比自己的身体略低的水平上的其他身体的边缘,这是致命的;因为这意味着持续的下行压力,在维持合理工资率的斗争中还要克服额外的困难。

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.

我以为我会死。在审判之前,我从来没有想过我会活着逃跑。然而,在毒气室被处决并不一定意味着失败。这可能是使社区提高意识水平的又一步骤。

The reason why so few marriages are happy, is, because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.

幸福的婚姻之所以如此之少,是因为年轻的女士们把时间都花在织网上,而不是放在笼子里。

I could sell used battery acid and make it fly.

我可以卖掉用过的电池酸,让它飞起来。

The stories we love best live in us forever.

我们最爱的故事永远活在我们心中。