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传统
Tradition
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。
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。
Tradition, if not constantly recreated, can be as much a millstone as a mill-wheel.
传统，如果不经常被重新创造，就会像磨盘一样成为磨盘。
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!
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。
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。
I would then go on to say that Homer, as we now know, was working in what they call an oral tradition.
我想接着说，荷马，正如我们现在所知，是在他们所谓的口头传统中工作的。
You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition.
你不需要真正的现代化才能完全和完整地存在。你需要现代和传统的结合。
The Gandhi family has a tradition of being good hosts. When you call upon them, they treat you with a lot of respect.
甘地家族有着好客的传统。当你拜访他们时，他们对你非常尊重。
The tradition of baseball always has been agreeably free of chivalry. The rule is ‘Do anything you can get away with’.
棒球运动的传统向来没有令人愉快的骑士精神。规则是“做任何你能逃脱惩罚的事情”。
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。
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But you say you are conservative - eminently conservative - while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?
但你说你是保守的——非常保守——而我们是革命性的、破坏性的，或诸如此类的东西。保守主义是什么?它不是坚持旧的和尝试过的，反对新的和未经尝试的吗?
To recover a spiritual tradition in which creation, and the study of creation, matters would be to inaugurate new possibilities between spirituality and science that would shape the paradigms for culture, its institution, and its people.
恢复一种精神传统，在这种精神传统中，创造和对创造的研究是至关重要的，这将开创精神和科学之间的新可能性，从而形成文化、制度和人民的范例。
It's kind of a tradition that you get a rookie, put him in the middle, wrap your arms and legs around him, then douse him with everything you can get a hold of - shaving cream, ketchup, mustard, everything. It's kind of like a pie in the face after a guy is successful.
这是一种传统，你找一个新手，把他放在中间，用胳膊和腿抱住他，然后把你能弄到的所有东西都浇在他身上——刮胡膏，番茄酱，芥末，所有的东西。这有点像一个人成功后脸上的馅饼。
Tradition is the illusion of permanance.
传统是永恒的幻觉。
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。
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。