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传统
Tradition
Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
传统是向导，而不是狱卒。
Tradition is the illusion of permanance.
传统是永恒的幻觉。
The tree remains, but not so the hand that put it.
树还在，但放它的手却不在了。
I'm a traditionalist. I have certain values I live by.
我是一个传统主义者。我有自己的价值观。
Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting.
保存传统已经成为一种很好的爱好，就像集邮一样。
Teaching is not a lost art. But the regard for it is a lost tradition.
教学不是一门消失的艺术。但对它的重视已成为一种失传的传统。
You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.
你必须与时俱进，准备打破传统。
Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.
传统成为我们的保障，当思想得到保障时，它就会腐朽。
Tradition must be a springboard to the future, not an easy chair for resting.
传统必须是通向未来的跳板，而不是安乐椅。
We always had to play the game and play for the team. It is a Kent tradition.
我们总是要打比赛，为球队而战。这是肯特郡的传统。
I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.
我喜欢将叙事故事作为一种传统的一部分，一种民间传统。
I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.
我满足于坚持传统。我甚至更乐意在上面擦脚。
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How to respect tradition and to innovate at the same time? What a difficult challenge!
如何在尊重传统的同时创新?多么困难的挑战啊!
When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.
当一项传统积累了足够的力量，可以延续几个世纪时，你不会一天就把它关掉。
Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product.
我们的道德传统是随着我们的理性而发展的，而不是作为理性的产物。
The epic poet has behind him a tradition of matter and a tradition of style; and that is what every other poet has behind him too; only, for the epic poet, tradition is rather narrower, rather more strictly compelling.
史诗诗人的背后有着物质的传统和文体的传统;这也是其他所有诗人都有的东西;只是，对于史诗诗人来说，传统要狭隘得多，要严格得多。
Culture is the bed-rock, the final wall, against which one leans one’s back in a g-d-forsaken chaos.
文化是床岩，是最后一堵墙，在这堵墙的衬托下，一个人仰卧在被遗弃的混乱之中。
There's the tradition in jazz of having the Battle of the Bands, and you do not want to get your head cut when you're playing.
在爵士乐中有一个传统，那就是在乐队之间展开一场战斗，你不想在演奏的时候被人砍头。