A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
清算
Reckoning
A mistake is no reckoning.
错误不可算。
By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
通常认为，最差的书拍出最好的电影。
Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness being broadened and enriched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly.
旅行不仅给我们提供了一个新的计算系统，它还把我们自己未知的方面带到前台。随着我们意识的开阔和丰富，我们会更正确地判断自己。
I was sort of growing up at a time of really rapidly expanding ecological consciousness. It was a time of reckoning when people were talking about how the Everglades was on life support. I was always trying to reconcile it as a kid.
我成长在一个生态意识迅速发展的时代。人们谈论大沼泽地是如何维持生命的，那是一个需要清算的时期。当我还是个孩子的时候，我总是试图调和它。