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Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.

  • -- Ian Hacking 伊恩·哈金

切鸡来预测未来，如果诚实地做，并且尽可能少地解释，是一种随机化。但鸡内脏很难读懂，也会让人联想到想象力或腐败。

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Militarism is basically a way of thinking, a certain interpretation of the function of the state; this manner of thinking is, moreover, revealed by its outer forms: by armaments and state organization.

军国主义本质上是一种思维方式，一定程度上诠释了国家的功能;此外，这种思维方式还表现在它的外在形式上:军备和国家组织。

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My interpretation of a strong director is someone who knows their story. That's what directors are, they're storytellers because they're directing where your focus is going to be as an audience.

我对优秀导演的理解是，他知道自己的故事。导演就是这样的人，他们是讲故事的人，因为他们把你作为观众的注意力引向哪里。

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The discovery that I soon made that the guinea pig was also susceptible to infection made it possible for me, from the third year on, to preserve the virus on this animal.

我很快发现，豚鼠也容易感染，这使我从第三年开始，能够在这种动物身上保存病毒。

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As a columnist, I realize that whatever amount of corruption I expose, half my readers will block it out, although they may get a frisson of joy in the process.

作为一名专栏作家，我意识到，不管我揭露了多少腐败，半数读者都会把它挡在门外，尽管他们可能会在这个过程中感到一阵喜悦。

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It is possible to be different and still be all right. There can be two - or more - answers to the same question, and all can be right.

有可能是不同的，但仍然是好的。同一个问题可能有两个或两个以上的答案，而且都可能是正确的。

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But eradicating corruption is not enough to sustain a country.

但是根除腐败不足以维持一个国家的稳定。

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