Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.

  • -- Christopher Lasch 克里斯托弗.拉什

因为它将传统等同于偏见,左派发现自己越来越无法用普通人的共同语言与他们交谈。

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Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills.

大自然总是在说话。她讲的是一种真诚的观察者在平和的心境中能够理解的语言。豹子、眼镜蛇、猴子、河流和树木;当我在喜马拉雅山麓流浪时,他们都是我的老师。

You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel.

你能从普通人那里听到最好的故事。对我来说,那种即时性的感觉比许多文采十足、文采十足的故事更真实。当我读小说时,我想要那种即时性。

I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, and I warn you not to grow old.

我警告你不要平凡,我警告你不要年轻,我警告你不要生病,我警告你不要变老。

We inhabit a language rather than a country.

我们居住的是一种语言,而不是一个国家。