A society that has made "nostalgia" a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.

  • -- Christopher Lasch 克里斯托弗.拉什

一个把“怀旧”变成文化交流中有销路的商品的社会,很快否定了过去的生活在任何重要方面都比今天的生活更好的说法。

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

考虑到他们在人格市场上的价值,爱情往往只是两个人之间的一种有利的交流,他们能得到他们所能期望的最多的东西。

Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country.

数学没有种族和地理界限;对于数学来说,文化世界是一个国家。

I don't get what my signature is supposed to mean if we haven't had some kind of exchange.

如果我们没有交换的话,我不明白我的签名是什么意思。

Really important meetings are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other.

真正重要的会议是由灵魂在身体互相看见之前很久就计划好的。

The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights.

文化相对主义只是侵犯人权的借口。

We also have to ask if we focusing on the most important priorities.

我们还必须问一问,我们是否专注于最重要的优先事项。