In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent that is supported by other patterns: the larger patterns in which it is embedded, the patterns of the same size that surround it, and the smaller patterns which are embedded in it.

  • -- Christopher Alexander 克里斯托弗·亚历山大

简而言之,没有模式是孤立的实体。每种模式只能在其他模式支持的范围内存在:嵌入它的较大模式、与它相同大小的模式以及嵌入其中的较小模式。

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Evergreen had opened up a whole new world to me. There I met many internationally celebrated people: there I was surrounded by the best art and music, as well as conversation. I knew I could never return to the life I had led before.

常绿为我打开了一个全新的世界。在那里,我遇到了许多国际知名人士:在那里,我被最好的艺术、音乐以及交谈所包围。我知道我再也不能回到以前的生活了。

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

在这个世界上,焦虑、压力、恐惧和愤怒的成分并不独立于你而存在。它们根本不存在于物质世界中,即使我们谈论它们时,仿佛它们存在一样。

I think the extent to which I have any balance at all, any mental balance, is because of being a farm kid and being raised in those isolated rural areas.

我想,我之所以能在心理上保持平衡,是因为我是一个农村孩子,在那些与世隔绝的农村长大。

The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.

我们喜欢和欣赏的电影在某种程度上是我们看电影时的真实自我的体现。

Films have never shown the kind of relationship that can exist between two women.

电影从来没有表现过两个女人之间可以存在的那种关系。

I wish the world was a bit smaller, that way, I'd be closer to you.

我希望世界更小一点,那样我就能离你更近一点。

You can be surrounded by people and still be lonely.

你可以被人包围,但仍然感到孤独。

The world map looks smaller than ever before.

世界地图看起来比以往任何时候都要小。