All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use.

  • -- Jared Diamond 戴蒙德

所有人类社会都经历过这样一种潮流,在这种潮流中,它们要么暂时采用很少使用的做法,要么放弃大量使用的做法。

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At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity still cast up a man whose faith in it was so great that he would voluntarily abandon those things which men hold good, including life, to defend it.

在希斯的案例中,争论的焦点是,这个病态的社会,我们称之为西方文明,在其极端情况下,是否还能培养出这样一个人,他对西方文明的信心是如此之大,以至于他会自愿放弃人们认为好的东西,包括生命,来捍卫它。

My dad sacrificed many things in life for me. He abandoned a very promising and lucrative career of an army officer just so that he could continue helping me with my chess and accompanying me to tournaments.

我爸爸为我牺牲了很多东西。他放弃了一份很有前途、很赚钱的军官工作,只是为了能继续帮助我下棋,陪我参加锦标赛。