Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.

  • -- Willa Sibert Cather 威拉·西伯特·凯瑟

给人们一个新词,他们就会认为自己掌握了一个新的事实。

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We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.

我们已经到了道路上的一个转折点。如果我们转向右边,也许我们的孩子和我们孩子的孩子会走那条路;但如果我们转向左边,未出生的后代将会诅咒我们的名字,因为我们对上帝和他的话不忠。

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

事实上,真理在很大程度上依赖于信用体系。只要没有任何挑战,我们的思想和信念就会过去;只要没有人拒绝,钞票就会过去。

I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.

我开始接受这样一个事实:爱一个人需要信心的飞跃,而软着陆从来就没有得到保证。

The word of the day is legs. Let's go back to my place and spread the word.

今天的词是腿。让我们回到我的地方去传播这个消息。