A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
混乱
Confusion
In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry.
在马上要看到的事物中,多样性使混乱成为美的另一种恶习。在那些看不见的、彼此不尊重的事物中,巨大的变化是值得称赞的,只要这种变化不违反光学和几何学的规则。
Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.
然而,应该很明显,好的音乐通常比政治占据更高的层次。伟大的作家可以通过旋律表达情绪,捕捉我们分享的最强烈的经历——爱、欲望、渴望;快乐、愤怒、恐惧;胜利,渴望和困惑。
Unfortunately, there's a lot of confusion today over what is sexy and what is vulgar. It's horrifying. They say, 'Oh, that girl is so sexy,' and she turns around and the dress is four sizes too small. Or she's wearing so much stuff, you wonder how long it took her to get ready.
不幸的是,关于什么是性感,什么是低俗,今天有很多困惑。这是可怕的。他们说,‘哦,那个女孩太性感了’,然后她转过身来,发现裙子小了四个码。或者她穿了那么多衣服,你想知道她花了多长时间才准备好。
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There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea.
在西方,有时会有一种特殊的困惑,把进步等同于最近的或新的东西,现在是时候让我们明白,进步与思想的年代无关。
She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.
她善于玩抽象的困惑,就像侏儒善于变矮一样。
I mean, y'know, platinum is different in every country, which can be confusing.
我的意思是,你知道,白金在每个国家都是不同的,这可能会令人困惑。
Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.
符号与客体的混淆是与词同时期的原罪。
Dark is not opposite of light. It is just the absence of light. Similarly, a problem is the absence of an idea. Not absence of a solution.
黑暗不是光明的对立面。只是没有光。同样,问题是缺乏一个想法。不是没有解决方案。