It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.

  • -- Irwin Edman 欧文·埃德曼

它是一个神话,而不是命令;它是一个寓言,而不是逻辑;

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MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.

神话(神话):原始人对其起源、早期历史、英雄、神灵等的信仰,有别于他们后来编造的真实故事。

As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says, belongs to its necessity.

正如普罗提努斯告诉我们的,我们选择了适合灵魂的身体、父母、地点和环境,正如神话所说,这些都属于灵魂的需要。

You know he really cares when he asks what's wrong, and when you tell him nothing he stays there waiting for the real reason.

你知道,当他问出了什么事,而你什么也没告诉他时,他真的很在乎,他在那里等待真正的原因。

I write of the wish that comes true - for some reason, a terrifying concept.

我写的愿望成真——出于某种原因,一个可怕的概念。