Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world.

  • -- Tony Blair 托尼·布莱尔

与现代现实无关的价值观不仅在选举中毫无希望,它们本身也会贬值。他们在现实世界中没有购买。

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If you're a cartoon character or most TV characters, sure, you'll fight, because the punches are juicy-sounding and they don't leave marks. But in real life, if somebody punches you in the eye, it doesn't make any noise and your eye is swollen for, like, six months. It's a nightmare to get punched in the eye.

如果你是一个卡通人物或大多数电视角色,当然,你会战斗,因为拳击听起来很有趣,而且不会留下痕迹。但在现实生活中,如果有人打你的眼睛,它不会发出任何声音,你的眼睛会肿六个月。被打在眼睛上是一场噩梦。

The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life.

现代生活中最深刻的问题产生于个人要求在面对压倒一切的社会力量、历史遗产、外部文化和生活技巧时保持其存在的自主性和个性。

It would, of course, be hopeless to attempt to crowd into an international language all those local overtones of meaning which are so dear to the heart of the nationalist.

当然,试图把民族主义者心中所珍视的所有地方意义的暗示都挤进一门国际语言,那是毫无希望的。

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

我意识到过去和未来都是真实的幻想,它们存在于现在,这就是现在和所有的一切。

I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.

我渴望变得聪明,但几乎从来没有。我想我当时相当绝望。

See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.

看,当我画画时,这是一种体验,在最好的情况下,是超越现实的。

Modern Carpet Designs may provide endless entertainment for your guests.

现代地毯设计可为您的客人提供无尽的娱乐。

The reality is more excellent than the report.

现实比报告更精彩。