One great building does not make a great city.

  • -- Thomas Heatherwick 托马斯·赫斯维克

一座伟大的建筑不可能造就一座伟大的城市。

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To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.

对于这一类人,我们可以把它留给改进本国的方言,用借用西方命名法的科学术语来丰富这些方言,并使它们逐渐成为向广大人民传播知识的工具。

Architecture is particularly difficult for women; there's no reason for it to be. I don't want to blame men or society, but I think it was for a long time, the clients were men, the building industry is all male.

建筑对女性来说尤其困难;没有理由。我不想责怪男性或社会,但我认为在很长一段时间里,客户都是男性,建筑行业都是男性。

At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth.

在我生命的尽头,我在我出生的城市获得了迟来的名声和认可。

Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise not blame.

心不喜褒贬,心不喜责备。

Crime is an overhead you have to pay if you want to live in the city.

如果你想住在城市里,犯罪是你必须支付的额外费用。

We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.

我们必须制止关闭学校和建造监狱的趋势。