在《宇宙》片段中，“记忆的持久性，”卡尔-萨根赞叹道：
What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.
一本书是多么令人惊奇的事情啊。它是上面印着许多有趣的黑色弯曲线的，一个由一棵树的柔韧部分制成的平坦物体。但只要看一眼，你就进入了另一个人的思想，也许某个人已经死了几千年了。横跨千年，一个作家在你的大脑中清晰而沉默地直接对你说话。写作也许是人类最伟大的发明，它将互不相识的人们，所处时代遥远的公民们联系在一起。书打破了时间的枷锁。一本书证明了人类具有施展魔法的能力。
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What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.
一本书是多么令人惊奇的事情啊。它是上面印着许多有趣的黑色弯曲线的，一个由一棵树的柔韧部分制成的平坦物体。但只要看一眼，你就进入了另一个人的思想，也许某个人已经死了几千年了。横跨千年，一个作家在你的大脑中清晰而沉默地直接对你说话。写作也许是人类最伟大的发明，它将互不相识的人们，所处时代遥远的公民们联系在一起。书打破了时间的枷锁。一本书证明了人类具有施展魔法的能力。
#书摘 #SuperMemo_Guru