The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.

  • -- Ralph Adams Cram 拉尔夫·克拉姆

对完美的追求总是意味着明确的贵族,这是一个努力的目标,就像一个崇高的哲学,一个庄严的公民政治或伟大的艺术。

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This implies that the laws governing organic cohesion, the organization leading from the part to the whole, represent a biological uncertainty, indeed an uncertainty of the first order.

这意味着支配有机凝聚力的法律,即从部分到整体的组织,代表着一种生物学上的不确定性,实际上是一种一级的不确定性。

Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.

常识,就其存在而言,是完全属于资产阶级的。胡说八道是贵族的特权。全世界的忧虑都是为老百姓的。

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead

共和国里的贵族就像一只被砍掉头的鸡;它可能以一种活泼的方式四处奔跑,但事实上它已经死了

In the broad and sweeping sense which the use of the term generally implies, I am not a free-trader.

从广义上讲,我不是一个自由贸易者,而广义上讲,我不是一个自由贸易者,而广义上讲,我不是一个自由贸易者。

This is definitely the first curmudgeon, no doubt about it.

毫无疑问,这绝对是第一个脾气暴躁的人。