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Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is independent of all experience in its origin, though constantly combined with experience in its exercise.

  • -- William Whewell 惠威尔

基本思想不是经验的结果，而是头脑的特定结构和活动的结果，这种结构和活动独立于一切经验的起源，尽管在实践中不断地与经验相结合。

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Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.

一切都必须在历史的大框架内重新获得和重新定位，这样，尽管困难重重，存在着根本的矛盾和矛盾，我们仍然可以尊重历史的统一性，也就是生命的统一性。

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That's the fundamental flaw in the illusion that writers like to maintain, the idea that we can craft anything approaching the truth.

这是作家们喜欢坚持的幻想的根本缺陷，他们认为我们可以创造出任何接近真相的东西。

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The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.

我认为，书评的首要功能应该是让读者对这本书的内容和特点有所了解。

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I have a tendency to hire people who tend to be unattractive to the studios. Maybe this is a bad idea.

我倾向于雇佣那些对制片厂没有吸引力的人。也许这是个坏主意。

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