On Wall Street he and a few others - how many? three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? had become precisely that... Masters of the Universe.

  • -- Tom Wolfe 汤姆·沃尔夫

在华尔街,他和其他一些人——有多少人?三百,四百,五百?恰恰变成了……宇宙的主人。

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I do not pretend to know precisely what is on foot there; but I think it pretty evident that there is a very free communication between that country and this body, and unless I am greatly mistaken, I see the dwarfish medium by which that communication is kept up.

我并不假装确切知道那里有什么;但我认为,很明显,在这个国家和这个机构之间存在着一种非常自由的交流,除非我大错特错,否则我看到的是侏儒媒介,通过它,这种交流得以保持。

As we look out into the universe and identify the many accidents of physics and astronomy that have worked together to our benefit, it almost seems as if the universe must in some sense have known that we were coming.

当我们望向宇宙,发现许多物理学和天文学的意外事件共同为我们造福时,似乎在某种意义上,宇宙一定已经知道我们要来了。

There are few things more pleasing than the contemplation of order and useful arrangement.

没有什么比思考秩序和有益的安排更令人愉快的了。

First of all, we must note that the universe is spherical.

首先,我们必须注意宇宙是球形的。

Set high standards and few limitations for yourself.

给自己设定高标准,少些限制。