We know that our senses are subject to decay, that from our middle years they are decaying all the time; but happily it is as if we didn't know and didn't believe.

  • -- William Henry Hudson 威廉·亨利·赫德逊

我们知道我们的感官会衰退,从中年开始,它们就一直在衰退;但令人高兴的是,我们似乎不知道,也不相信。

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All we have to believe with is our senses, the tools we use to perceive the world: our sight, our touch, our memory. If they lie to us, then nothing can be trusted. And even if we do not believe, then still we cannot travel in any other way than the road our senses show us; and we must walk that road to the end.

我们所要相信的是我们的感官,我们用来感知世界的工具:我们的视觉,我们的触觉,我们的记忆。如果他们对我们说谎,那么什么都不能相信。即使我们不相信,我们仍然不能以任何其他方式旅行,除了我们的感官告诉我们的道路;我们必须沿着这条路走到底。

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

信心确实能告诉我们感官所不能告诉我们的,但却不能告诉我们与感官所看到的相反。它在他们之上,并不与他们相反。

So there was this big slug of decaying material that introduced a big slug of nutrients into the system.

所以有大量的腐烂物质将大量的营养物质引入系统。

We eat food all the time and don't really understand what goes into something like bread.

我们一直在吃东西,却不知道面包之类的东西里都有什么。

I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way.

我为自己是切罗基人的一部分而自豪,我认为现在是我们所有印第安人都有同样感受的时候了。