There's no such thing as the contemporary novel. Before I seem the complete reactionary, let me add that I've happily joined in many discussions about 'the contemporary novel' where what that usually, unproblematically means is novels that have appeared recently or may appear soon.

  • -- Graham Swift 格拉汉姆·史威夫特

当代小说是不存在的。在我显得完全反动之前,让我补充一句,我很高兴地参加了许多关于“当代小说”的讨论,在这些讨论中,通常毫无疑问的意思是最近或即将出版的小说。

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The earliest phase of social formations found in historical as well as in contemporary social structures is this: a relatively small circle firmly closed against neighboring, strange, or in some way antagonistic circles.

在历史和当代社会结构中发现的社会形态的最早阶段是这样的:一个相对较小的圆圈与相邻的、陌生的或在某种程度上对立的圆圈紧紧地封闭在一起。

There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they'd eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isn't true.

有一个统计理论,如果你给一百万只猴子打字机,让它们工作,它们最终会写出莎士比亚的全集。多亏了互联网,我们现在知道这不是真的。

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

没有一个崇拜教育的人能从教育中得到最好的东西……没有对教育的温和蔑视,没有人的教育是完整的。

I don't worry whether the period is contemporary or three hundred years ago. Human beings are all alike.

我不担心这个时期是当代的还是三百年前的。人类都是一样的。