But in due course it became evident that not only a physical situation qua physics, but the meaning of that situation to people, was sometimes a factor, through the behavior of people, in the start of a fire.

  • -- Benjamin Lee Whorf 本杰明·李·沃尔夫

但是,随着时间的推移,很明显,不仅物理情境是一种物理现象,而且这种情境对人们的意义,有时也是一个因素,通过人们的行为,在火灾中起作用。

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It is evident that one cannot say anything demonstrable about the problem before having resolved these preliminary questions, and yet we hardly possess the necessary information to solve some of them.

显然,在解决这些初步问题之前,我们不能对这个问题说任何可以证明的话,然而我们几乎没有必要的资料来解决其中一些问题。

And, well of course, Count Basie, and I think all of the black bands of the late thirties and early forties, bands with real players. They had an influence on everybody, not just drummers.

当然,还有贝西伯爵,我想所有三十年代末到四十年代初的黑人乐队都有真正的演奏者。他们对每个人都有影响,不仅仅是鼓手。

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

我们认为这些真理是不言而喻的:人人生而平等。

Stay at the center of the circle and let all things take their course.

站在圈子的中心,让一切顺其自然。