Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.

  • -- Lascelles Abercrombie 阿伯克龙比激光束

史诗以某种伟大的象征态度表现生活。它不能严格地说象征着生命本身,但总是某种生活方式。

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Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances.

达尔文的理论是建立在严格经验主义的概括基础上的。你可以走出去,看到生物体确实在变化,变异是遗传的,每一个生物体都有能力在足够有利的环境下增加自己的数量。

Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels.

不加批判的语义学是博物馆的神话,在这个神话中,展品是意义,文字是标签。切换语言就是改变标签。

If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.

如果史诗是一个明确的物种,那么传奇就不属于它。

Kinsey was never a lawyer. She's strictly blue collar.

金赛从来都不是律师。她完全是个蓝领。

Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.

云象征着上帝的面纱。