The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses.

  • -- Ernst Mach 恩斯特马赫

平凡人对盲、聋很熟悉,从他的日常经验中知道,事物的外观是受他的感官影响的;但是他从来没有想过把整个世界看作是他感官的创造。

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Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.

大多数人读诗是为了寻找共鸣,因为共鸣对他们来说很熟悉。他们涉水而过,就像一个男孩涉水而过,用脚趾摸索着水底:回声就是水底。

The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a new one in its place.

这则新闻引起了孩子们的厌倦感,就像孩子们一旦熟悉了一个玩具,就会对它感到厌倦,并要求换一个新的一样。