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There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea.

  • -- Barbara Amiel 艾米尔

在西方，有时会有一种特殊的困惑，把进步等同于最近的或新的东西，现在是时候让我们明白，进步与思想的年代无关。

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Large sums were paid for the use of money, because the available amount of gold and silver was far less than was needed to carry on the commercial transactions of the times.

由于当时可用的金银数量远远少于进行商业交易所需要的数量，所以货币的使用需要支付大量的金钱。

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The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

困难之处在于，要试图让大众明白，某些事情可以同时是真实的，也可以是不真实的。

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I mean, y'know, platinum is different in every country, which can be confusing.

我的意思是，你知道，白金在每个国家都是不同的，这可能会令人困惑。

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Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

混乱是指任何在我们头脑中产生混乱的秩序。

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