We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living.

  • -- Rem Koolhaas 雷姆·库哈斯

我们说我们想创造美、身份、品质和独特性。然而,也许事实上,我们拥有的这些城市是我们想要的。也许正是他们的无个性为生活提供了最好的环境。

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The children are taught more of the meanest state in Europe than of the country they are born and bred in, despite the singularity of its characteristics, the interest of its history, the rapidity of its advance, and the stupendous promise of its future.

孩子们所受的教育更多的是关于欧洲最贫穷的国家,而不是他们出生和成长的国家,尽管这个国家有着独特的特点、对历史的兴趣、进步的速度以及对未来的巨大希望。

A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.

总质量的一个基本原则逃过了太多管理者的注意:只有逐步完善相互依赖的人际关系,才能不断改进相互依赖的系统和过程。

The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.

问题不仅在于奇点代表着人类从中心舞台上的消亡,而且它与我们根深蒂固的存在观念相矛盾。

I don't have an interest in any car that isn't good for the environment, other than maybe an aesthetic quality in a picture book.

我对任何对环境不好的车都不感兴趣,除了画册上的美感。

Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.

在我告诉我的生活我想做什么之前,我必须听我的生活告诉我我是谁。

Consular cards are easily obtained with no proof of true identity and are easily forged.

领事证很容易在没有真实身份证明的情况下获得,也很容易伪造。