Our ability to measure and apportion time affords an almost endless source of comfort.

  • -- Richard Yates 理查德·耶茨

我们衡量和分配时间的能力提供了几乎无穷无尽的安慰。

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History is hard to know...but...it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time - and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.

历史很难知道,但是……似乎完全有理由认为,整整一代人的精力会时不时地在很长一段美好的闪光中迸发出来,原因是当时没有人真正理解的——回想起来,这些原因从来没有解释过究竟发生了什么。

Of course my family and friends are incredibly valuable to me. They keep me sane, they teach me things and I love spending time with them. I think that ranking what you value is a sort of western and linear way of looking at things.

当然,我的家人和朋友对我来说是非常宝贵的。他们让我保持清醒,他们教我东西,我喜欢花时间和他们在一起。我认为对你所看重的事物进行排序是一种西方的线性看待事物的方式。

I was slightly brain damaged at birth, and I want people like me to see that they shouldn't let a disability get in the way. I want to raise awareness - I want to turn my disability into ability.

我出生时大脑受到轻微损伤,我希望像我这样的人明白,他们不应该让残疾成为障碍。我想提高人们的意识——我想把我的残疾变成能力。

What did Citibank get out of it? It got the ability to reverse the arbitrage. Actually, what they got was the ability to give themselves a profit, and that saved the bank.

花旗银行从中得到了什么?它获得了逆转套利的能力。实际上,他们得到的是给自己带来利润的能力,这拯救了银行。