Why isn't it natural for people who have lived and worked at something to want to use the knowledge and capacity in a new way, free from the burden of making a living?

  • -- James Rouse 詹姆斯·劳斯

为什么对于那些生活和工作过的人来说,想要以一种新的方式使用知识和能力,摆脱谋生的负担不是一件很自然的事情呢?

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I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in.

那么,我想,那个人在满足了他最初对事实的渴望之后,想要更全面的东西——某种对他的能力和经验的组合,某种对他的视野所不能理解的这一连串事件的联系的适应。

The emphasis has been on rights, not responsibilities. When it comes to piecing together the fragments of broken lives, we have tended to place the entire burden on the state and its agencies.

重点是权利,而不是责任。在把破碎的生活碎片拼凑起来的时候,我们往往把所有的负担都压在国家及其机构身上。

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

使人难以忍受老年之苦的不是一个人智力和身体的衰退,而是一个人记忆的负担。

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

人的智慧与其经验成正比,而与经验的能力成正比。