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传统
Tradition
There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.
即使是现在，阿富汗也没有写小说的伟大传统。大多数文学作品是以诗歌的形式出现的。
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。
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。
That's why we're doing this, to defend our traditions a little. I don't have anything against it (Halloween), but it's not our tradition.
这就是为什么我们要这么做，稍微维护一下我们的传统。我不反对万圣节，但这不是我们的传统。
I'm very much a traditionalist, but I think it's important to know about tradition so that you can evolve the music you are deciding to make.
我是一个传统主义者，但我认为了解传统是很重要的，这样你就可以发展你决定创作的音乐。
Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.
欧洲传统中的大多数绘画都是画面具。现代艺术拒绝了这一切。我们的主题是面具背后的人。
When you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice.
当你学习其他传统的教学和实践时，你总是有机会了解你自己的教学和实践。
I am keeping with tradition today. After I learned of my Golden Globe nomination, I went to the dentist, so today, let's make it the orthodontist.
我今天遵循传统。在我得知自己获得金球奖提名后，我去看了牙医，所以今天，我们就选正畸医生吧。
There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
讲故事有一个伟大的传统，它有几千年的历史，讲国王和他们宫殿的故事，这正是我想做的。
History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.
历史或多或少是胡扯。这是传统。我们不想要传统。我们想活在当下，唯一值得修补的历史就是我们今天创造的历史。
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。
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?
KEEP EXPLORING
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Tradition is the illusion of permanance.
传统是永恒的幻觉。
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 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。
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。
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。