Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.

  • -- Nicolaus Copernicus 哥白尼

因此,当我仔细考虑这个问题时,由于我的观点的新奇和明显的荒谬,我不得不害怕受到轻视,这几乎使我完全放弃了我已经开始的工作。

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The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts.

历史的叹息从废墟中升起,而不是从风景中升起。在安的列斯群岛,除了糖园和废弃堡垒的废墟外,几乎没有什么废墟值得叹息。

Novels, in my experience, are slow in coming, and once I've begun them I know I have years rather than months of work ahead of me.

以我的经验来看,小说来得很慢,一旦开始写,我就知道我还有几年而不是几个月的工作要做。

If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.

如果你想避免外来的碰撞,你最好放弃海洋。