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If there's ever a place where you can't argue that you can put the facts over here and the text over there and see if they fit, it is surely in anthropology.

  • -- Clifford Geertz 吉尔兹

如果有一个地方你不能争辩，你可以把事实放在这里，文本放在那里，看看它们是否符合，那肯定是人类学。

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I was interested in variations in temperatures of the oceans over the past millennium. But there are no records of these changes so I had to find proxy measures: coral growth, ice cores and tree rings.

我对过去一千年海洋温度的变化很感兴趣。但没有这些变化的记录，所以我不得不寻找替代指标:珊瑚生长、冰芯和树木年轮。

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We give you the facts. I told you information is power - knowledge is power. We can't be in an ideological battle to redeem the soul of this country if we don't have the facts.

我们告诉你事实。我告诉过你信息就是力量——知识就是力量。如果我们没有事实，我们就不可能在意识形态的斗争中拯救这个国家的灵魂。

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When these suckers had formed roots in the open ground, or kind of nursery where they were planted, they were looked over and the best taken up for potting.

当这些吸盘在开阔的土地上生根时，或者在它们被种植的苗圃里生根时，它们就会被仔细观察，最好的就会被用来盆栽。

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Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective.

悲观主义只描述一种态度，而不是事实，因此完全是主观的。

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