Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it.

  • -- Gerrit Smith 赫里特·史密斯

然而,我们关心的是奴隶制的现状,而不是它的任何理论。

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The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

奴隶注定要崇拜时间、命运和死亡,因为它们比他在自己身上发现的任何东西都要伟大,因为他所有的思想都是被时间、命运和死亡吞噬的。

When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.

当激流把一个人冲到一块大石头上时,你必须期待他会尖叫,如果尖叫有时只是一种理论,你也不必感到惊讶。

In this movement of colors I find the essence, which does not arise from a system, or an a priori theory.

在这色彩的运动中,我找到了本质,它不是从一个系统或一个先验的理论中产生的。

Another of my wishes is to depend as little as possible on the labor of slaves.

我的另一个愿望是尽可能少地依赖奴隶的劳动。