125. "The past is no predictor of the future."
过去是无法预测未来的。
1. Nobody can foretell the future exactly.
2. However, knowledge of the past can provide us a rough idea about what might happen in the future.
3. Wisdom of the past provides necessary resources to help us confront the old or new problems of the future.
过去和未来
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189. "If people disregard the great works of the past, it is because these works no longer answer the needs of the present."
如果人们忽视了过去的伟大成就，那只能是因为这些成就已经不再满足现今的需要了。
1. In general, it would appear that art is more likely motivated by an interest in keeping pace with science and technology than by a desire to break from it.
2. Admittedly, some works of art would appear to reject, or at least provide a respite from, science and technology.
3. Moreover, the speaker’s concern for whether art’s function is to embrace or oppose science and technology begs the question, for the final objective of art lies instead in its ability to convey a society’s values, ideals, and concerns.
过去和现在之伟大成就
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