Joan的笔记(535)

地图

这本书就属于那种需要读过很多其他书才能读懂的一类。我问ChatGPT斯瓦比亚人是不是Swedish, 他立马否认: No, Swabians are not Swedish! 先来补几张英文版附在后面的地图： Map 1 : The Roman Empire in the Tim...

复杂的互动

Extensive research has been conducted into Turner's life, enabling the wealth of his creative output to be placed in perspective. The question remains, however, as to how he developed a style of pa...
特纳的草图本：从叙述到建构

The open pages of the Rivers Meuse and Moselle Sketchbook (p. 32, top) demonstrate the energy and intensity with which he recorded his observations. A double side reveals a dozen views at once, one...

第三类：天真的伪君子 3/3

CLEANTE Your case is bad, so far as I can see; This deed of gift, this trusting of the secret To him, were both—to state my frank opinion— Steps that you took too lightly; he can lead you To any ...
第二类：信仰伪君子 2/3

CLEANTE That is the usual strain of all your kind; They must have everyone as blind as they. They call you atheist if you have good eyes; And if you don’t adore their vain grimaces, You’ve neithe...
第一类：道德伪君子 1/3

Tartuffe: The Hypocrite translated by Curtis Hidden Page (1870-1946) Le Tartuffe Molière 1622-1673 Act I, Scene I p10-11 CLÉANTE Eh! madam, can you hope to keep folk’s tongues From wagging? It...

语言之美

‘Five days ere I set out on this venture, eleven days ago at about this hour of the day, I heard the blowing of that horn: from the northward it seemed, but dim, as if it were but an echo in the m...
半明人

‘What hope have we?’ said Faramir. ‘It is long since we had any hope. The sword of Elendil, if it returns indeed, may rekindle it, but I do not think that it will do more than put off the evil d...

红旗下的蛋

But time passed, new archives were opened, revised histories became available and acceptable, Lenin was demythologized, and the situation resolved itself. In Arbatov’s own memoirs appears the foll...
阅读与民主

The introduction of mass-market paperback books in the 1940s has brought the world’s literature and the insights of its greatest thinkers, present and past, into the lives of ordinary people. And ...
美国的问题

The use of potentially life-saving technology differs from nation to nation. The United States, for example, has the highest infant mortality of any industrial nation. It has more young black men i...
不见真实的历史必然再现曾经的轨迹

Now imagine a Western observer considering some of the events in Soviet history. Marshal Tukhachevsky’s marching orders on July 2, 1920, were, “On our bayonets we will bring peace and happiness t...