But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way.

  • -- Frances Perkins 弗朗西丝·珀金斯

但是随着冰川的缓慢威胁,萧条开始了。没有人知道它的进展;没有人有任何阻止它的计划。每个人都想让开。

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Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain.

令人费解的是,在完全远离自然体验的情况下,由抑郁引起的灰色恐怖细雨呈现出身体疼痛的性质。

Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.

研究包括四件事:用来思考的大脑,用来看东西的眼睛,用来测量的机器,第四,钱。

How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization.

一个社会如何对待残疾人是衡量一个文明的真正标准。

I grew up in the heart of the Depression.

我在大萧条的中心长大。