Our specious present as such is very short. We do, however, experience passing events; part of the process of the passage of events is directly there in our experience, including some of the past and some of the future.

  • -- George H. Mead 乔治·H·米德

我们似是而非的礼物是如此的短暂。然而,我们确实经历了一些转瞬即逝的事件;事件通过的部分过程直接存在于我们的经验中,包括一些过去和一些未来。

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I'm like a decathlete who does all of the events he's used to, but is being forced by certain circumstances to focus on three events, and being forced to focus on events that he wasn't that interested in, and also weren't his strongest events.

我就像一个十项全能运动员,他做所有他习惯做的项目,但在某些情况下,他被迫专注于三项,被迫专注于他不感兴趣的项目,也不是他最强的项目。

One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.

人们无法想象有什么事情是如此奇怪和难以置信,以至于没有一个或另一个哲学家说过。

It's not on Main Street so we have to plan events all the time to keep going.

它不在主街,所以我们必须一直计划活动才能继续。

All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.

所有的思想都不过是柏拉图的一个脚注。