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The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.

  • -- Chinua Achebe 奇努阿切贝

在过去的四五百年里，欧洲人与非洲的接触产生了大量的文学作品，这些作品把非洲描述得非常糟糕，用非常耸人听闻的语言描述非洲人。其原因与为奴隶贸易和奴隶制辩护的需要有关。

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It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or to those who, like Paley, purify it, stamp it, fix its real value, and give it currency and utility.

值得怀疑的是，人类是否最感激那些像培根和巴特勒那样从文学宝库中挖掘黄金的人，还是最感激那些像佩利那样净化它、盖章、确定它的真正价值并赋予它货币和效用的人。

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I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature.

我从一个有艺术天赋的男孩开始……作为一个视觉艺术家…我想这就是我现在的样子，在我十几岁的时候，我开始阅读严肃的文学作品。

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I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly; and where it fails them, they cry out, It is a matter of faith, and above reason.

我发现每一个教派，只要理性能帮助他们，都乐于利用它;如果失败了，他们就会大叫，这是信仰的问题，而不是理性的问题。

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Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.

因为不管出于什么原因，即使我想一直呆在家里，一个人呆着，我想告诉世界我现在是谁。

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People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.

人们需要开始思考他们在电影中传达的信息。

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You teach best what you most need to learn.

你把你最需要学的东西教得最好。

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