Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.

  • -- Louis Kahn 路易斯·卡恩

每当一个学生经过一幢属于他的学院的非常紧急、富有表现力的建筑时,它都能帮助他确信,他确实有那样的头脑,有那样的灵魂。

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During these two and a half years that have followed the war, the most urgent problem we have encountered was: to activate the public enterprises, to bring them up to the level that international markets demand and we are just now getting them prepared for privatization.

在战后的这两年半中,我们遇到的最紧迫的问题是:激活公共企业,使它们达到国际市场所需要的水平,我们现在正在使它们为私有化作好准备。

Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship.

教育的每一次重大推动都使情况变得更糟,而现在情况真的很糟糕,因为我们所做的一切都是在使教育失去人性。它破坏了老师和学生之间建立一种温暖、友好、知性关系的可能性。

I have been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid. I have always been fascinated by the idea that your mind, when you are asleep, can create a world in a dream and you are perceiving it as though it really existed.

我一直对梦想很感兴趣,真的,从我还是个孩子的时候。我一直着迷于这样一个想法:当你睡着的时候,你的大脑可以在梦中创造一个世界,而你在感知它的时候,就好像它真的存在一样。

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

正如我赞同一个年轻人身上有一点老人的气质一样,我对一个老人身上有一点年轻人的气质也同样感到高兴。遵守这条规则的人,身体可能会变老,但思想永远不会变老。

I'm not sure I have a natural gift. I think it's just that some people have an easier time expressing their emotions, maybe because of the way they've been raised, and I've always been expressive.

我不确定我是否有天生的天赋。我认为这只是因为有些人更容易表达他们的情感,也许是因为他们成长的方式,而我总是善于表达。

Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.

浪费比损失更糟糕。每一个自称有能力的人都会把浪费的问题不断地摆在面前,这一时刻即将来临。节俭的范围是无限的。

I have spoken with many former athletes, and they tell me the best time they had was in sports. I listen to them and use their experience in my career.

我和许多以前的运动员交谈过,他们告诉我,他们在运动场上度过了最美好的时光。我倾听他们的意见,并在我的职业生涯中运用他们的经验。

A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.

今天,人们以青春的神圣名义做了一百件事,如果他们展现出自己的真面目,人们就会认为他们是属于老年人的权利。

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

多年来,我学到,当一个人下定决心时,恐惧就会减少;知道必须做什么可以消除恐惧。

It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't stop playing the game the way you've always played it.

在你到达山顶之前,这是小菜一碟。你会发现你无法停止你一贯的游戏方式。

I don't want to see blood spewing out but I don't mind it in controlled environment. Does it make me squeamish? No.

我不想看到血喷涌出来,但我不介意在受控的环境中。这让我恶心吗?不。

The most important function of a bibliographic entry is to help the reader obtain a copy of the cited work.

书目条目最重要的功能是帮助读者获得所引用作品的副本。

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

每一个来到这里的移民都应该被要求在五年内学习英语或者离开这个国家。

Most urgent is the good First Job Program, that Lula plans to implement, which hasn't got off the ground.

最紧迫的是卢拉计划实施的第一个良好的就业计划,这个计划还没有开始实施。

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

我不需要一个随我改变而改变,随我点头而点头的朋友;我的影子做得更好。

Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.

年龄并不能减少冰淇淋从蛋卷上掉下来时的极度失望。

I don't like actors who try to talk directors into making their part bigger and that's really lame.

我不喜欢那些试图说服导演把他们的角色演得更大的演员,那真的很差劲。

No, I was an unknown when I walked in that room. He didn't know who I was from a fly on the wall.

不,当我走进那个房间的时候,我还是个无名小卒。他根本不知道我是谁。

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

绘画是一种具有永久性的表现手法。

It is not like casting me in your movie is going to help you get financing.

让我出演你的电影并不会帮你获得资金。

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

得着工价的,这人便为有福。让他别无所求。

It is better to write down something once than read it ten times.

写一遍总比读十遍好。

I've said my piece. My time now is entirely focused on family.

我已经说过了。我现在的时间完全花在家庭上。

Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.

形式服从利益是我们时代的审美原则。

I've never professed to be anything but an average student.

我从来没有说过自己不是个普通的学生。

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

我们塑造我们的建筑;此后,他们塑造了我们。

I am not afraid to walk this world alone.

我不害怕一个人走在这个世界上。

I do belong on stage.

我确实属于舞台。