The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.

  • -- Edward Dahlberg 爱德华·达尔伯格

机器对美德、怜悯和爱情产生了有害的影响,习惯于机器的年轻人会产生惰性和恐惧,他们几乎无能为力。

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The main cause is a pernicious falsehood propagated against her being, namely that she is inferior by her nature. Inferior in what? What has man ever done that woman, under the same advantages could not do?

主要的原因是一种有害的谎言,传播反对她的存在,即她是劣等的性质。差在什么?在同样有利的条件下,男人做过那个女人不能做的事吗?

My father bought me a little cardboard accordion, and when I was three I got this little machine.

我父亲给我买了一个小手风琴,我三岁的时候就有了这个小机器。

love has a very dulling effect on the brain.

爱情对大脑有一种非常迟钝的影响。

Everything's plastic, we're all gonna die.

所有东西都是塑料的,我们都会死。

An office is a machine for dying.

办公室是死亡的机器。