Today not even a universal fire could make the torrential poetic production of our time disappear. But it is exactly a question of production, that is, of hand-made products which are subject to the laws of taste and fashion.

  • -- Eugenio Montale 蒙塔莱

今天,即使是一场宇宙之火也不能使我们这个时代汹涌澎湃的诗歌创作消失。但这恰恰是生产的问题,也就是说,手工制作的产品必须符合品味和时尚的规律。

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I've never tried to find my real parents. I'm very grateful to my mum and dad for adopting me - they're completely incredible people. It was my dad who encouraged me to question everything, to forge my own path, to think, to read. I always felt it was my right to question everything.

我从未试着找到我真正的父母。我非常感谢我的父母收养了我——他们是非常了不起的人。是我的父亲鼓励我去质疑一切,去开拓自己的道路,去思考,去阅读。我总是觉得我有权质疑一切。

My plays are for the kind of black people who relate to funk music, to Parliament-Funkadelic. When those guys get out of a spaceship - the idea that black people are from outer space, there's a poetic truth to that. We are this vast people.

我的剧本是写给那些喜欢放克音乐的黑人的,属于议会放克乐派。当这些人走出宇宙飞船——黑人来自外太空的想法,有一个诗意的真理。我们是如此广大的人民。

Existence of an excited state is not a prerequisite for the production of inhibition; inhibition can exist apart from excitation no less than, when called forth against an excitation already in progress, it can suppress or moderate it.

激发态的存在并不是产生抑制的先决条件;除了兴奋之外,抑制也可以存在,当对已经在进行中的兴奋进行激发时,抑制至少可以抑制或调节它。

The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence.

决定我们命运的问题不是我们是否要向太空扩张。它是:我们是一个物种还是一百万?一百万个物种不会耗尽等待智能到来的生态位。

We can live frugally. The less you work, the less you spend and the more time you have for loafing about. But when I put forward this simple notion, I was greeted with a volley of resentment.

我们可以节俭地生活。你工作越少,花的时间就越少,你就有越多的时间闲逛。但当我提出这个简单的想法时,我遭到了一连串的不满。

The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers.

黑人面临着两种选择,一是提高生产能力,以满足他们在制造商和商人中所占的比例,二是沦落为贫民的坟墓。

Which goes to show you, you can make all the laws you want, but you cannot change people's ways. If you must change them, you have to understand that it will take a long time.

这表明,你可以制定所有你想要的法律,但你不能改变人们的方式。如果你必须改变他们,你必须明白这将需要很长时间。