Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards.

  • -- William Whewell 惠威尔

因此,无论多么大的力,也无法把一根绳子,无论多么细的力,拉成一条准确笔直的水平线:总是会有向下弯曲的。

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I'm very lazy when it comes to making the original sound. I don't go through amplifiers and different compressors and signal parts. I just grab something, whether its an old guitar or a children's toy that happens to be lying around, and record it straight into the computer.

我很懒,当涉及到发出最初的声音。我不涉及放大器,不同的压缩器和信号部分。我只是拿了一些东西,不管是一把旧吉他还是一个孩子们的玩具,然后把它直接记录到电脑里。

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

武力对于拥有它的人,或者自认为拥有它的人,就像对于它的牺牲者一样,是无情的;第二次被它碾碎,第一次被它陶醉。事实上,没有人真正拥有它。

What I learned is that policymakers have to force consideration of actions that may not have occurred to them at the time.

我学到的是,政策制定者必须强制考虑他们当时可能没有想到的行动。

The straight line is ungodly.

直线是不神圣的。