The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

  • -- Chinua Achebe 奇努阿切贝

我们从经验中学到的唯一一件事是我们从经验中学不到任何东西。

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If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research.

如果一个学生修了我所有的民俗学课程,包括研究生研讨会,他或她应该学习一些田野调查的知识,一些关于书目的知识,一些关于如何进行图书馆研究的知识,以及如何发表这些研究。

What we do as actors is we go through phases where you superficially learn all this information.

作为行动者,我们所做的就是经历一些阶段,在这些阶段里,你表面上了解所有这些信息。

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

艺术中的美往往只是被抑制的丑陋。

In a world that owes you nothing give everything.

在一个不欠你任何东西的世界里,付出一切。