What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.

  • -- St. Jerome 圣杰罗姆

如果大脑已经在路上渗出来了,那么速度又有什么用呢?

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Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.

脑力通过大脑的使用而提高,就像我们的身体力量随着锻炼而增长一样。毫无疑问,从上学到中年晚期,很大一部分女性的生活确实非常复杂。

In making certain things easier for people, technology has actually demotivated people from using their brains. We have all these devices that keep us connected, and yet we're more disconnected than ever before. Why is that?

为了让人们更容易做某些事情,科技实际上让人们失去了用脑的动力。我们拥有所有这些让我们保持联系的设备,但我们比以往任何时候都更缺乏联系。这是为什么呢?

Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace.

一个称职的工人如果不花大量的时间研究他的工作究竟有多慢,同时又能使他的雇主相信他干得不错,那他是很难找到的。

It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls.

听到别人表达自己的想法可能会冒犯我们:我们对他们的灵魂不够肯定。