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It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

  • -- Adam Smith 亚当·史密斯

我们期待我们的晚餐不是来自屠夫、酿酒师或面包师的仁慈，而是来自他们对自己利益的关心。

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We must be aware of the dangers, which lie in our most generous wishes. Some paradox of our nature leads us, when once we have made our fellow men the objects of our enlightened interest, to go on to make them the objects of our pity, then of our wisdom, ultimately of our coercion.

我们必须意识到存在于我们最慷慨的愿望中的危险。我们天性中的一些矛盾导致我们，一旦我们把我们的同胞作为我们启蒙兴趣的对象，就会继续把他们作为我们怜悯的对象，然后是智慧的对象，最终是强迫的对象。

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When you're looking that far out, you're giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so it doesn't need translation. It's like poetry, it touches you.

当你看得那么远的时候，你给了人们他们在宇宙中的位置，它触动了人们。科学通常是可视化的，所以不需要翻译。就像诗歌一样，触动着你。

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Part of the problem is when we bring in a new technology we expect it to be perfect in a way that we don't expect the world that we're familiar with to be perfect.

部分问题在于，当我们引入一项新技术时，我们期望它是完美的，而不是我们所熟悉的世界是完美的。

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What this means is that the first week of every new series of ads will continue to yield softer results than you can expect to see in weeks two and three.

这意味着，每一个新系列广告的第一周都会比你在第二周和第三周看到的结果更加疲软。

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As to Bell's talking telegraph, it only creates interest in scientific circles... its commercial values will be limited.

至于贝尔的会说话的电报，它只会引起科学界的兴趣。它的商业价值将受到限制。

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Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.

爱可以是无私的，在仁慈和慷慨的意义上，没有无私。

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At first the ancient images of the Goddess did not interest me.

起初，我对古代女神的形象不感兴趣。

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