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A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

  • -- G. K. Chesterton 特顿

激进派一般指的是认为自己能在不影响花的情况下拔出根部的人。保守主义者通常指的是想要保护一切的人，除了他自己保护任何东西的理由。

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Similarly, many a young man, hearing for the first time of the refraction of stellar light, has thought that doubt was cast on the whole of astronomy, whereas nothing is required but an easily effected and unimportant correction to put everything right again.

同样地，许多年轻人第一次听到恒星光的折射，就认为天文学的整个领域都受到了怀疑，而要使一切恢复正常，除了一种容易实现的、不重要的纠正外，什么也不需要。

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But you say you are conservative - eminently conservative - while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?

但你说你是保守的——非常保守——而我们是革命性的、破坏性的，或诸如此类的东西。保守主义是什么?它不是坚持旧的和尝试过的，反对新的和未经尝试的吗?

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To make the argument that the media has a left- or right-wing, or a liberal or a conservative bias, is like asking if the problem with Al-Qaeda is do they use too much oil in their hummus.

要证明媒体有左派、右派、自由派或保守派的偏见，就像问基地组织的问题是否在于他们在鹰嘴豆泥中使用了太多的石油。

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When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost.

当失去了人性，坑里的尸体和街上行走的人之间的根本区别就消失了。

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I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.

我成了一个男人。在那之前我是个小男孩。

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