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30 mayo Cities and Ambition 城市和志向和作者很有共鸣，我从原文中摘出来翻译几句。
How much does it matter what message a city sends? Empirically, the answer seems to be: a lot. You might think that if you had enough strength of mind to do great things, you'd be able to transcend your environment. Where you live should make at most a couple percent difference. But if you look at the historical evidence, it seems to matter more than that. Most people who did great things were clumped together in a few places where that sort of thing was done at the time.
一个城市所能传递的信号有多重要？以我的经验，答案是：非常重要。你也许会认为，只要你有足够的坚定的志向，你可以超越你所处的环境。这个时候，你所身处的环境可能对你的成败影响甚微。然而，历史记录会告诉你，环境比你想象的更重要。那些做出伟大事业的人，都来自少数的那几个地方，从那里他们在各个行业做出了伟大的事业。 I don't. I'm fairly stubborn, but I wouldn't try to fight this force. I'd rather use it. So I've thought a lot about where to live.
我不会(认为我能冲出环境的制约)。虽然我有时候很固执自己的想法，但我不会和环境斗争。我宁愿利用它。所以我花很久思考我应该住在哪里。
As of this writing, Cambridge seems to be the intellectual capital of the world. I realize that seems a preposterous claim. What makes it true is that it's more preposterous to claim about anywhere else. American universities currently seem to be the best, judging from the flow of ambitious students. And what US city has a stronger claim? New York? A fair number of smart people, but diluted by a much larger number of neanderthals in suits. The Bay Area has a lot of smart people too, but again, diluted; there are two great universities, but they're far apart. Harvard and MIT are practically adjacent by West Coast standards, and they're surrounded by about 20 other colleges and universities.
我看起来像是在说剑桥是世界上的智慧之都。这可能是个荒谬的结论。然而事实上，没有一个城市像剑桥那样更适合这个称号了。美国的大学应该是世界上最好的，从那些熙熙攘攘充满雄心的年轻人就可以看出。还有什么城市能和Cambridge比呢？纽约？有一些聪明人，但更多的是西装笔挺坐在大厦里办公的人。西海岸也有许多聪明人，那儿有两所优秀的大学但它们离的太远。哈佛和MIT和西海岸的那两个大学实力相当，周围却环绕着20多所其他的大学或者学院。 Comentarios (1)Para agregar un comentario, inicia sesión con tu cuenta de Windows Live ID (si utilizas Hotmail, Messenger o Xbox LIVE, ya tienes una cuenta de Windows Live ID). Iniciar sesión ¿No tienes una cuenta de Windows Live ID? Regístrate
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