Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.

  • -- Frederick Turner 弗雷德里克·特纳

每个时代都试图形成自己对过去的概念。每一个时代都参照其所处时代的最高条件,重新书写过去的历史。

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We know, in other words, the general conditions in which what we call, somewhat misleadingly, an equilibrium will establish itself: but we never know what the particular prices or wages are which would exist if the market were to bring about such an equilibrium.

换句话说,我们知道一般的情况,在这种情况下,我们所谓的均衡会建立起来,这多少有点误导人,但我们永远不知道,如果市场带来这样一种均衡,会存在什么样的特定价格或工资。

There is a strong disposition in youth, from which some individuals never escape, to suppose that everyone else is having a more enjoyable time than we are ourselves.

年轻人有一种强烈的倾向,认为别人比我们自己过得更愉快,这是有些人永远无法摆脱的。

Conditions of thought, memory, and desire, persuaded by impulse and irrationality, are influenced as well by personal aesthetics and private meanings.

思想、记忆和欲望的条件,被冲动和非理性说服,也受到个人美学和私人意义的影响。

The time has come to formulate guidelines for the ethical conduct of scientist, perhaps in the form of a voluntary Hippocratic Oath.

现在是制定科学家道德行为准则的时候了,或许可以以自愿的希波克拉底誓言的形式。

We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory.

我们不需要弥赛亚,也不需要一个用地狱和炼狱来威胁我们的上帝的枯燥观念。