When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

  • -- Walter Lippmann 沃尔特·利普曼

当把遥远的、陌生的、复杂的东西传达给广大人民群众时,真理就会受到相当大的歪曲,而且往往是根本性的歪曲。复杂变成简单,假设变成教条,相对变成绝对。

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The songwriting of Hall & Oates is deceptively complex. There are a number of key changes that pass you by as you're listening to the song because they're so seamless and clever.

霍尔与奥茨的歌曲创作看似复杂。当你听这首歌的时候,有一些关键的变化会从你身边溜走,因为它们是如此的天衣无缝和巧妙。

A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.

远敌总比近处的好。

Gymnastics is so complex.

体操是如此复杂。