It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life.

  • -- Adam Clarke 亚当·克拉克

令人遗憾的是,很少有人在取得某种程度的显赫或名望后,为自己写过纪念性的东西,至少像他们这样热爱自己的私生活和公共生活。

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If bloggers are to improve our public discourse - helping busy and usually uninformed people make sense of the world - it is necessary to use some sort of standard with which to judge their reliability. Perhaps the answer (strictly advisory) is a body of their peers. Perhaps not.

如果博客作者想要改善我们的公共话语——帮助忙碌且通常无知的人们理解这个世界——就有必要使用某种标准来判断他们的可靠性。或许答案(严格意义上的建议)在于他们的同行。也许不是。

In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.

实际上,是追随,而不是强迫公众的意愿;立法的真正目的是为社会的普遍意识指明方向、提供形式、提供技术服装和给予具体的制裁。

I don't think Capote loved Smith. But he did make a deep connection. It upset some people, because that had never been the approach to journalistic crime writing, to look into the mind of the killer.

我不认为卡波特爱史密斯。但他确实建立了很深的联系。这让一些人感到不安,因为这从来就不是新闻犯罪写作的方法,去探究凶手的内心。

I've been ripped for being too sensitive, but I do think people need to walk in another person's shoes before they accuse them of being too sensitive.

我被指责过于敏感,但我确实认为人们需要换位思考,才能指责别人过于敏感。