The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind.

  • -- Samuel Eliot Morison 塞缪尔·艾略特·莫里森

同样的时间和空间的偶发事件迫使政治家或士兵作出决定,促使历史学家作出决定,尽管不那么紧迫。

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There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

总有一天,科学的头脑中会涌现出一种机器或一种力量,它的潜力是那么可怕,那么绝对可怕,甚至连敢于用酷刑和死亡来制造酷刑和死亡的战士,也会感到震惊,从而永远放弃战争。

There has certainly been criticism of the timing involved in getting help to the victims of the storm, and much of it may indeed be warranted. However, this is not the time for pointing fingers; rather, it is the time for offering a helping hand to our neighbors in need.

当然,在向风暴受害者提供帮助的时机上也存在一些批评,而且其中的大部分可能确实是有必要的。然而,这不是指责的时候;相反,这是向我们需要帮助的邻居伸出援手的时候。

Every sacred space implies a hierophany, an irruption of the sacred that results in detaching a territory from the surrounding cosmic milieu and making it qualitatively different.

每一个神圣的空间都暗示着一种层次,一种神圣的突兀,导致一个领土从周围的宇宙环境中分离出来,并使其在性质上有所不同。

The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.

真正的作曲家每时每刻都在思考他的作品;他并不总是意识到这一点,但当他突然知道自己要做什么的时候,他就会意识到这一点。

What you don't do can be a destructive force.

你不做的事情可能是一种破坏性的力量。

I don't like having my space invaded.

我不喜欢我的空间被侵占。