First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.

  • -- David McCullough 戴维·麦卡洛

首先,你可以提出这样的论点,没有过去。没有人生活在过去。

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For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. His hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.

因为,如果一个从未见过火的人用令人满意的论据证明火是燃烧的。他的听众永远不会满足,除非他把手伸进火里,通过实验来学习论证所教的东西,否则他也不会避开火。

The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.

在一个头脑空空的人看来,最合理的论据也不会比最肤浅的说教更令人信服;羽毛和几内亚在真空中以同样的速度落下。