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传统
Tradition
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。
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。
There's an academic tradition called the 'Last Lecture.' Hypothetically, if you knew you were going to die and you had one last lecture, what would you say to your students? Well, for me, there's an elephant in the room. And the elephant in the room, for me, it wasn't hypothetical.
有一个学术传统叫做“最后一课”。假设，如果你知道自己就要死了，而你还有最后一堂课，你会对你的学生说什么?对我来说，房间里有一头大象。房间里的大象，对我来说，这不是假设。
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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。
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。
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。
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。
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。