At the same time, new concepts and abstractions flow into the picture, taking up the task of describing the universe without reference to such time or space - abstractions for which our language lacks adequate terms.

  • -- Benjamin Lee Whorf 本杰明·李·沃尔夫

与此同时,新的概念和抽象出现在画面中,承担起描述宇宙而不涉及时间或空间的任务——我们的语言缺乏足够的术语来描述这些抽象。

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We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

我们正处在人类历史的开端。我们努力解决问题并不是没有道理的。但在未来还有数万年。我们的责任是尽我们所能,学习我们所能,改进解决方案,并把它们传递下去。

Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.

抽象将世界带入更复杂、更多变的关系中;它可以从看似虚无的事物中提取美、另类的地形、丑和强烈的现实。

Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect.

在许多形式的错误文化中,过早地与抽象概念进行对话,很可能对男性智力活力的成长造成致命的影响。

Off camera, I am not so quiet, I have a fun time, relaxed.

在镜头之外,我没有那么安静,我有一个有趣的时间,放松。