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过去
past
The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.
自我是一个口头的社会,在这个社会里,现在不断地与过去和未来在同一个皮肤里进行对话。
When I had money in the past, I would always travel rather than spend it on big apartments or cars. And I still feel exactly the same way.
当我过去有钱的时候,我总是旅行而不是把钱花在大公寓或汽车上。我仍然有同样的感觉。
What are they going to do to me that they haven't done already? They took away my entire past. They took away my entire future. What's left for them to take?
他们要对我做什么他们还没有做的?他们带走了我的全部过去。他们夺走了我的未来。他们还能拿什么?
So it allows me to travel, I'll be doing that and running these great rivers and doing what I've done in the past without much purpose other than for the experience.
所以它让我可以旅行,我可以那样做,管理这些伟大的河流,做我过去做过的事情,除了为了体验,没有其他目的。
In the past, I'd sort of know before Ozzy sang something, what he was going to sing. I'd know what sort of way a melody was going to go 'cause of the way he'd approach it.
过去,在奥兹唱歌之前,我就知道他要唱什么。我知道一段旋律会以怎样的方式演奏,因为他的演奏方式。
So I've learned in the past, if a company approaches me and they want something like this, or something like that that I've done and I turn them down, they're going to do it anyhow.
我以前学过,如果一家公司找我,他们想要这样的东西,或者是我做过的类似的东西,我拒绝了他们,他们无论如何都会这么做。
All of us, whether guilty or not, whether old or young, must accept the past. It is not a case of coming to terms with the past. That is not possible. It cannot be subsequently modified or undone.
我们所有人,无论有罪与否,无论年老或年轻,都必须接受过去。这不是与过去妥协的问题。这是不可能的。它随后不能修改或撤消。
But it's funny that now I'm in such a happy situation, I look more objectively at my own past and see what others have seen for a long time and I'm just so glad I've been able to get to this point.
但有趣的是,现在我处于如此幸福的境地,我更客观地看待自己的过去,看到别人很长时间以来所看到的,我很高兴我能走到这一步。
Self-righteous people can talk themselves into forgetting they are part of a civilization. They can then feed on that culture, bringing it down. It's happened many times in the past. It could happen to us.
自以为是的人会说服自己忘记自己是文明的一部分。然后他们可以利用这种文化,把它拉下来。这在过去发生过很多次。这可能发生在我们身上。
When you've moved past a point where you're just scrambling for jobs, you think about the things that you want to do. And the things that you want to do are governed by what you've seen, what you choose to embrace.
当你经历了一段艰难的求职时期,你会想想你想做的事情。你想做的事情是由你所看到的决定的,由你所选择的去拥抱。
There is no justifiable prediction about how the hypothesis will hold up in the future; its degree of corroboration simply is a historical statement describing how severely the hypothesis has been tested in the past.
关于这个假设在未来将如何成立,没有合理的预测;它的确证程度只是一种历史陈述,描述了过去对该假设的检验有多么严格。
You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the photographer's picture is always surrounded by a kind of romantic glamor - no matter what you do, and how you twist it.
作为一名摄影师,你做你的工作,一切都成为过去。语言更像思想;摄影师的照片总是围绕着一种浪漫的魅力-无论你做什么,你如何扭转它。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?
月亮!阿耳特弥斯!人类辉煌过去的伟大女神!你要告诉我她是个死疙瘩吗?
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.
那些不记得过去的人注定要重蹈覆辙,而不会有一种讽刺的徒劳感。
I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.
与过去相比,我觉得做这项工作不那么有必要了。
I get a little heated when I talk about the past. But I wanted to be clear - I'm not mad at anybody - not anymore.
当我谈论过去的时候,我有点激动。但我想澄清一点——我不生任何人的气——再也不生气了。
Never mind a world that can't see past brutality.
不要在意一个看不到过去暴行的世界。
I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.
我几乎完全无视先例,相信会有更好的结果。有人告诉我事情总是这样做,我很生气。我反对先例的暴政。我追求任何可以改变过去的新事物。