All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!

-- T. E. Lawrence 阿拉伯的劳伦斯

世界上所有的修改都不能挽救一份糟糕的初稿，因为事物的结构在最初的构思中就已经形成，或者还没有形成，修改只会影响细节和装饰，唉!

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What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?

第二次世界大战以来，建筑发生了什么变化，只有那些拿着一根白棍子和一条狗的路人才能不痛不痛地欣赏它?

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Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.

任何与之相关的建筑作品，我认为都是好的。它显示出人们的兴趣，人们的参与。

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It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.

正是我们对时间的概念使我们用这个名字来称呼最后的审判。事实上，这是一种戒严法。

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