All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.

  • -- George Orwell 乔治·奥威尔

多年来所有的政治思想都以同样的方式被玷污了。人们只有在符合自己意愿的时候才能预见未来,而最明显的事实在不受欢迎的时候可以被忽略。

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The evidence that I see around me in society indicates that not only is thinking very much out of favor, but I'm not sure that the last couple of generations - Generation X and Generation Next, or whatever you want to call them - even know what a thought is, having been raised to be women.

我看到我周围的证据在社会表明不仅是思维非常忙,但我不确定,过去的几代- X一代和下一代,或者无论你想叫他们,甚至知道一个想法是什么,已经提高到是女性。

And I know that the younger generation is doing things that are so ingenious. And for them it's not a matter of a political belief or an environmental stance. It's really just common sense.

我知道年轻一代正在做一些非常有创意的事情。对他们来说,这不是一个政治信仰或环境立场的问题。这只是常识。

You can't do your work worrying about what people will think of it - you kind of just have to do your work.

你不能担心别人会怎么看你的工作——你只是需要做你的工作。

Thinking about the universe has now been handed over to specialists. The rest of us merely read about it.

对宇宙的思考现在已经交给了专家们。我们其余的人只是读到它。

The fact is, most journalists I know are not particularly political. They move around a lot.

事实上,我认识的大多数记者都不是特别政治化。他们经常搬家。

And as long as people want to hear me sing, I don't know why I'd retire.

只要人们想听我唱歌,我不知道我为什么要退休。