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1
Life
is
a
Chess-board
The
chess-board
is
the
world:
the
pieces
are
the
phenomena
of
the
universe;
the
rules
of
the
game
are
what
we
call
the
laws
of
nature.
The
player
on
the
other
side
is
hidden
from
us.
We
know
that
his
play
is
always
fair,
just
and
patient.
But
also
we
know,
to
our
cost,
that
he
never
overlooks
a
mistake,
or
makes
the
small
est
allowance
for
ignorance.
By
Thomas
Henry
Huxley
参考译文
棋盘宛如世界：
一个个棋子仿佛世间的种种现象：
游戏规则就是
我们所称的自然法则。
竞争
对手藏于暗处，不为我们所见。我们
知晓，这位对手向来处事公平，正义凛然，极富耐心。
然而，
我
们也明白，
这位对手从不忽视任何错误，
或者因为我们的无知而
做出一丝让步，所
以我们也必须为此付出代价。
2
It
was
the
best
of
times,
it
was
the
worst
of
times;
it
was
the
age
of
wisdom,
it
was
the
age
of
foolishness;
it
was
the
epoch
of
belief,
it
was
the
epoch
of
incredulity;
it
was
the
season
of
light,
it
was
the
season
of
darkness;
it
was
the
spring
of
hope,
it
was
the
winter
of
despair;
we
had
everything
before
us,
we
had
nothing
before
us;
we
were
all
going
direct
to
Heaven,
we
were
all
going
direct
the
other
way.
Excerpt
from
A
Tale
of
Two
Cities
by
Charles
Dickens
参考译文
这是一个最好的时代，也是一个最坏的时代；
这是明智的年代，这是愚昧的年代；
这是信任
的纪元，这是怀疑的纪元；这是光明的季节，这是黑暗的季节
；这是希望的春日，这是失望
的冬日；我们面前应有尽有，我们面前一无所有；我们都将
直下地狱
……
3
Equality
and
Greatness
Between
persons
of
equal
income
there
is
no
social
distinction
except
the
distin
ction
of
merit.
Money
is
nothing;
character,
conduct,
and
capacity
are
everythin
g.
Instead
of
all
the
workers
being
leveled
down
to
low
wage
standards
and
all
the
rich
leveled
up
to
fashionable
income
standards,
everybody
under
a
syste
m
of
equal
incomes
would
find
his
or
her
own
natural
level.
There
would
be
gr
eat
people
and
ordinary
people
and
little
people,
but
the
great
would
always
be
those
who
had
done
great
things,
and
never
the
idiot
whose
mother
had
spoil
ed
them
and
whose
father
had
left
a
horned
thousand
a
year;
and
the
little