Here, then, is the problem which I present to you, stark and dreadful and inescapable: Shall we put an end to the human race or shall mankind renounce war? People will not face this alternative becaus

威廉福克纳在接受诺贝尔奖时的演讲：威廉福克纳（1897—1962），美国作家，先后创作了十几篇长篇小说和几十篇短篇小说，描述了以美国南方200年来南北战争为中心事件的社会变迁，各种家族的兴衰，各种人物的沉浮。他的小说常描写美国的黑暗面，1949年获得诺贝尔文学奖。本篇是他在接受该奖时所发表的演讲。 Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech 威廉福克纳在接受诺贝尔奖时的

I'm here to talk about the next big thing, 我在这里要谈论另一件重要事情 because what we're finding out is that 因为我们发现 we have this capacity to report eyewitness accounts of what's going on in real time.

In the end, we have to say, I don't know. 最后，我们不得不说，我不知道。 If we knew, God would not be God. 如果我们知道，上帝就不是上帝了。 To have faith in this God would be more like trusting an essential benevolence in the u

If the axis-tilt theory had been refuted, 倘若“地轴倾斜”理论被观察否定了 its defenders would have had nowhere to go. 它的支持者们就无路可退了 No easily implemented change could make that tilt 没有什么信手拈来的变动能让地轴的倾斜 cause the same