The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.
他说,关于世界的真相是,任何事情都是可能的。如果你不是从出生就看到了这一切,从而失去了它的陌生感,它对你来说就会显得像是一个魔术表演中的帽子戏法,一个发烧的梦,一个充满了既没有类比也没有先例的幻象的恍惚,一个巡回的嘉年华,一个在许多泥泞的田野中多次投掷后最终目的地无法言说且灾难性超出想象的迁徙帐篷表演。
"El silencio es a veces la mejor respuesta."
The power of abstraction is that it allows us to ignore irrelevant details and focus on the essential aspects of a problem.
The great ideological battles between liberalism and communism, or between democracy and authoritarianism, have ended in the victory of the former.
这不仅关乎食物,更关乎拯救我们的星球。
译文:我本来是一介平民,在南阳务农亲耕,只想在乱世中苟且保全性命,不谋求在诸侯之中闻名显达。