Ever notice how irons have a setting for permanent press? I don't get it.

  • -- Steven Wright 史蒂文赖特

有没有注意过熨斗是如何设置永久性熨斗的?我不明白。

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The daily press, the immediate media, is superb at synecdoche, at giving us a small thing that stands for a much larger thing. Reporters on the ground, embedded or otherwise, can tell us about or send us pictures of what happened in that place at that time among those people.

每日的媒体,即时的媒体,擅长于提喻,擅长于给我们一个代表更大事物的小事物。地面上的记者,不管是嵌入式的还是其他的,都可以告诉我们或者给我们发送当时在那个地方发生的那些人的照片。

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

劣等人唯一永恒的情感是恐惧——害怕未知的、复杂的、无法解释的东西。他最希望的是安全。

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

当然,新闻自由可以是好是坏,但毫无疑问,没有自由,新闻将永远是坏的。

Except on their southern borders the great northern forests are not good as a permanent home for man.

除了在它们的南部边界,北方大森林并不是人类永久的家园。

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

文明的存在是经地质同意的,如有变更,恕不另行通知。

I notice a difference from the moment I meditate.

从我冥想的那一刻起,我注意到了不同。