世界的真相是任何事情都可能发生。若非你从出生起就见惯了这一切,从而消解了它的怪异,它就会向你展现其本来面目。一场药铺里的戏法。一场高烧的梦。一场充斥着既无先例也无类比的奇美拉的恍惚。一场巡回的嘉年华。一场迁徙的帐篷秀,在许多泥泞的场地搭台后,其最终目的地是无法言说且灾难性得超乎想象的。
The truth about the world 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.
虽然许多人包括华尔街人士,都密切注意巴菲特的一举一动,但他自己却谦逊地说
每个独裁者的梦想都是把他的国家变成一个没有围墙的监狱。
In economics, as in life, the answers are often more nuanced than they first appear.
德行与邪恶两个名词乃是以集体为对象的概念,是只有通过人们的频繁接触才能产生的。
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.