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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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Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.
领导是特别必要的,以确保随时接受不熟悉的和违反传统的东西。
The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics.
传统的数学家看到数学的优雅时,会承认并欣赏它。我建议更进一步,认为优雅是数学的一个基本要素:如果它笨拙,它就不是数学。
When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.
当男人受到压迫时,那是一场悲剧。当女性受到压迫时,这是传统。
Where I come from, there were traditions with my race and whenever you faced a curve in life, there was always a tradition.
在我的家乡,我的种族有自己的传统,每当你在生活中遇到困难时,总会有自己的传统。
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
没有传统,艺术就像一群羊没有牧人。没有创新,它就是一具尸体。
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。