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Self-righteous people can talk themselves into forgetting they are part of a civilization. They can then feed on that culture, bringing it down. It's happened many times in the past. It could happen to us.

  • -- David Brin 大卫·布林

自以为是的人会说服自己忘记自己是文明的一部分。然后他们可以利用这种文化，把它拉下来。这在过去发生过很多次。这可能发生在我们身上。

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After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of bitterness still to remain in the ground, to sprout and bear fruit in the future as it has borne fruit in the past?

在世界历史所无法比拟的我国人民的自愿努力之后，痛苦的老根还会象它过去所结的果实那样留在地里，在未来发芽和结果吗?

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I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viola, but louder.

我记得有一次，当我开始为中音萨克斯管写作时，一个萨克斯手告诉我要把它想象成双簧管和中提琴的混合体，但声音要大一些。

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It's time for you to live your own life without worrying about the expectations of others.

是时候过自己的生活了，不要担心别人的期望。

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Every day it becomes clearer that this was the wrong war at the wrong time.

每一天都越来越清楚，这是一场错误的战争，发生在错误的时间。

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Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.

后现代主义是去掉了乐观主义的现代主义。

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I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.

我不看报纸，我不看没完没了的音乐电视。

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