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Custom
Custom is second nature.
习惯成自然。
Custom reconciles us to everything.
习惯使我们适应一切。
A cake and a bad custom ought to be broken.
蛋糕和坏习惯应该打破。
Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?
习惯是我们的天性。除了习俗的原则,我们的自然原则是什么?
Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
不仅是习俗,而且是自然都肯定,做比遭受不公正更可耻,而正义就是平等。
Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
婚姻使人与风俗和传统产生了致命的联系,风俗和传统就像风和天气一样,不可估量。
On entering a country, ask what is forbidden, on entering a village, ask what are the customs, on entering a private house, ask what should not be mentioned.
进入一个国家,问什么是禁止的,进入一个村庄,问什么是风俗习惯,进入一个私人住宅,问什么是不应该提到的。
I've begun to look at the world through apocalypse eyes. Our society, which seems so sturdily built out of concrete and custom, is just a temporary resting place, a hotel our civilization checked into a couple hundred years ago and must one day check out of.
我开始用天启的眼光看世界。我们的社会似乎是由混凝土和习俗建造而成的,它只是一个临时的休息场所,是我们的文明在几百年前入住的酒店,总有一天会退房。