A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.

  • -- David Hume 大卫休姆

从某种意义上说,一个通晓历史的人,可以说从世界诞生之日起就生活在世上,并且在每一个世纪都在不断地增加他的知识储备。

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If this can be termed the century of the common man, then soccer, of all sports, is surely his game... In a world haunted by the hydrogen and napalm bomb, the football field is a place where sanity and hope are still left unmolested.

如果这可以被称为普通人的世纪,那么足球,在所有的运动中,无疑是他的运动……在一个被氢弹和凝固汽油弹所困扰的世界里,足球场是一个让理智和希望不受干扰的地方。

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.

有些人,与其说他们有天赋,不如说他们有某种才能,能够在一个世纪,甚至是十年的愿望实现之前,就预见到这些愿望。