After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is the essence which takes its place as life’s redemption.

  • -- Wallace Stevens 华莱士·史蒂文斯

当一个人放弃了对上帝的信仰之后,诗歌就成为了一种本质,它取代了生命的救赎。

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I don't want to flee, nor do I want to abandon the battle of these farmers who live without any protection in the forest. They have the sacrosanct right to aspire to a better life on land where they can live and work with dignity while respecting the environment.

我不想逃跑,也不想放弃那些在森林里没有任何保护的农民们的战斗。他们有神圣不可侵犯的权利,渴望在土地上过上更美好的生活,在那里他们可以有尊严地生活和工作,同时尊重环境。

As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.

作为个人和国家,我们现在正遭受着社会自恋的折磨。我们祖先深爱的回声,原始美洲,已经被遗弃了。我们爱上了自己的形象,爱上了自己创造的形象,而这些形象原来就是我们自己的形象。

I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction.

我很早就有意地放弃了困难的事情,因为我不仅认为它没用,我认为它是一种干扰。

But there came a point when one abandoned hope for faith, and trusted fate for charity.

但是,当一个人放弃了对信仰的希望,而把命运托付给慈善事业的时候,事情就发生了变化。