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人类

Human

I wrote about wasting time, which I suppose is a part of the great human journey. We're supposed to wallow, to go through the desert without water for a long time so that when we finally drink it, we'll truly need it and we won't spill a drop. It's about being present.

我写了关于浪费时间的文章,我认为这是人类伟大旅程的一部分。我们应该在沙漠里打滚,在很长一段时间里不喝水,这样当我们最终喝到水的时候,我们就会真正需要它,不会洒一滴。这关乎当下。

One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I had to decide early on whether I was to be an actor or a personality.

演戏的好处之一是,它让你不用付出代价就能过别人的生活。我从来不是那种把自己吹嘘成一个迷人的人的演员。我不得不很早就决定是当演员还是当演员。

Advertising as the printed form of selling would seem... ultimately to be justified in so far as it serves as a means of increasing legitimate human wants, as an agency of fair and economic competition in the distribution of goods, and as a stimulant to social progress.

作为印刷销售形式的广告似乎……从根本上说,这是正当的,因为它是增加人类合法需求的一种手段,是在分配商品方面进行公平和经济竞争的一种机构,是促进社会进步的一种手段。

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

正是在承认无知和承认不确定性的过程中,人类才有希望朝着某个方向不断地运动,而不是像人类历史上的不同时期那样,被限制,被永久地阻挡。

If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical laws, then these essential laws will be of most fertile significance in investigating facts of the conscious life of human and brute animals.

如果所有的意识都服从基本定律,就像空间现实服从数学定律一样,那么这些基本定律将对研究人类和野兽的意识生活事实具有最丰富的意义。

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

一旦人们认识到,即使是距离最近的人之间也会有无限的距离,如果他们能成功地喜欢上彼此之间的距离,使彼此能在天空中看到对方,那么,即使是在最接近的人之间,也会有无限的距离。

The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify.

和平宣传的方法旨在通过辩论建立和平学说,并在一般情况下创造一种有利于和平的感觉,但这些方法似乎没有达到人类行动的源泉,也没有处理他们试图改变的行为的原因。

A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate.

在这个多事之秋,许多失望和不幸都是文学和相关艺术的直接结果。我们相信,任何把自己的生命和精力用于幻想的人,从根本上来说都是不够的。

Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep from sheer exhaustion in the trenches, in spite of the roaring of the cannon about us and the whizzing of shrapnel over our heads.

人类的神经很快就适应了最不寻常的情况和环境。我注意到,尽管我们周围的大炮轰鸣,弹片在我们头上嗖嗖作响,但还是有相当多的人在战壕里精疲力竭地睡着了。

Arrow goes forward only after pulling in to backward. Bullet goes forward only after pressing the trigger backward. Every human being will get happy only after facing the difficulties in their life path... So do not afraid to face your difficulties. They will push you forward.

箭头只有在向后拉时才向前移动。子弹只有向后按下扳机才能前进。每个人只有在面对人生道路上的困难后,才会幸福。所以不要害怕面对你的困难。他们会推动你前进。

When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them, we grow in some small way.

当我们读英雄的故事,我们认同他们。我们和他们一起旅行。我们看到这些障碍几乎是如何克服的。我们看到他们作为人类是如何成长的,或者获得了一些品质,或者显示出强大的力量和勇气的品质。

People think that the arts are optional and they aren't. They teach a level of emotional depth that's equally important to mathematic skill. You can replace some math skills with a calculator if you know how to operate the thing, but there's no calculator for human interaction.

人们认为艺术是可选的,但事实并非如此。他们教给学生一定程度的情感深度,这对数学技能同样重要。如果你知道如何操作计算器,你可以用它来代替一些数学技能,但是没有计算器来进行人机交互。

KEEP EXPLORING

沿着这个主题,再读几句。

If you really want to show power in its larger aspects, you need to show the effects on the powerless, for good or ill - the human cost of public works. That's what I try to do, show not only how power works but its effect on people.

如果你真的想从更大的方面展示权力,你需要展示对无权者的影响,无论是好是坏——公共工程的人力成本。这就是我想做的,不仅展示权力是如何运作的,也展示它对人们的影响。

A LITTLE ENCOURAGEMENT

给此刻的你,一点向前的力量。

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关于学习、善意与成长,读一句,再想一想。

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be too cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

如果我们听从自己的智慧,我们就不会有爱情。我们永远不会有友谊。我们永远不会去做生意,因为我们太愤世嫉俗了。嗯,那是胡说八道。你必须一直从悬崖上跳下去,并在下降的过程中建立你的翅膀。