The function of posterity is to look after itself.

  • -- Dylan Thomas 狄兰·托马斯

后代的功能是照顾自己。

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The function of the killer and watching him - whatever that says about the world in which we live - it was always more about that world than it was about the actual watching.

凶手的作用和观察他——不管这说明了我们生活的世界是怎样的——总是更多地是关于那个世界,而不是真正的观察。

Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.

既然我们不能活得长久,那就让我们把至少还活过的一些纪念留给后代吧。

The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.

我们喜欢和欣赏的电影在某种程度上是我们看电影时的真实自我的体现。

If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it.

如果征服不能约束子孙后代,那么契约也不能约束子孙后代。