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。

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Shortly after I was born he emigrated to Durban, where members of my mother's family had settled at the turn of the century, and the rest of the family followed soon thereafter.

我出生后不久，他就移民到了德班，在世纪之交，我母亲的家族成员在那里定居下来，此后不久，家族的其他成员也相继来到这里。

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