Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his face, and on his back the burden of the world.

  • -- Edwin Markham 爱德温·马克姆

他被几百年的重压压弯了腰,倚着锄头,凝视着地面,脸上显出岁月的空虚,背上背着世界的重担。

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We do not want the racial antipathies or national antagonisms of the Old World transformed to this continent - as they will, should we become a part of European politics. The people of this country are overwhelmingly for a policy of neutrality.

我们不希望旧世界的种族仇恨或民族对立转变为这一大陆- -如果我们成为欧洲政治的一部分,他们将会这样做。这个国家的人民绝大多数支持中立政策。

It was a place without a single feature of the space-time matrix that he knew. It was a place where nothing yet had happened - an utter emptiness. There was neither light nor dark: there was nothing here but emptiness.

这是一个没有任何时空矩阵特征的地方。这是一个什么也没有发生的地方——一个完全空虚的地方。这里既没有光明也没有黑暗,只有空虚。

So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.

因此,每一个创造性的行为都力求获得绝对的地位;它渴望创造一个美丽的世界,战胜混乱,使之恢复秩序。

The usefulness of the cup, is it's emptiness.

杯子的用处,在于它是空的。