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The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers.

  • -- Edith Hamilton 依迪丝·汉密尔顿

每一代的现代人都是批评家，他们把我们从一个僵化的世界中拯救出来，他们不会让我们不受干扰地走我们祖先的道路。

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In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to the closer cultivation, east of the Mississippi, of ground already marked.

在小说中，库珀死后，近一代人的主要倾向也从征服新疆界，转向密西西比以东更接近已开垦的土地。

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You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.

你知道批评家是什么。如果你说的是实话，他们只会说你愤世嫉俗，这对一个以愤世嫉俗著称的作家没有任何好处。

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These critics who crucify me do not guess the littlest part of my sincerity. They must be burned in a blaze. I cannot learn from them.

这些把我钉死在十字架上的批评家们一点也没有看出我的真诚。它们必须在大火中烧掉。我不能向他们学习。

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Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

科学在现代世界有许多用途;然而，它的主要用途是提供长篇大论来掩盖富人的错误。

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Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.

进步是每一代人对其前辈犯下的不公。

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A nation's ability to fight a modern war is as good as its technological ability.

一个国家打现代战争的能力和它的技术能力一样好。

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