While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.

  • -- Alan Lightman 莱特曼

当人们在沉思的时候,时间不回头地跳过前面。

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

在内心深处,没有人真正相信他们有生存的权利。但是这种死刑判决通常是隐藏起来的,隐藏在生活的困难之下。如果这种困难不时被消除,死亡就会突然出现,难以理解。

One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you can actually accomplish that, with one unexpected word choice.

最强大的设备之一是扭曲时间,从人类时间到原子时间,到地质时间。有时候你可以用一个意想不到的词来完成。