It's sometimes wrongly imagined that astronomers, contemplating timespans measured in billions, must be serenely unconcerned about next year, next week and tomorrow.

有时，人们会错误地想像，以数十亿的标准来衡量时间间隔的天文学家们一定很冷漠，不会在乎明年、下周甚至明天。

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I think it is central to our civilisation that people do that. Adam Smith uses the example of mathematicians. Mathematicians seem to be, in his observation, totally unconcerned with popular praise.

然后将其演进成渴望值得被夸奖,这代表了成熟.我以为人们这种行为对社会文明很重要.亚当斯密还举了一个数学家的例子. 根据他的观察,数学家似乎根本不关心一般的夸奖;

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I think it is central to our civilisation that people do that. Adam Smith uses the example of mathematicians. Mathematicians seem to be, in his observation, totally unconcerned with popular praise.

然后将其演进成渴望值得被夸奖,这代表了成熟.我以为人们这种行为对社会文明很重要.亚当斯密还举了一个数学家的例子. 根据他的观察,数学家似乎根本不关心一般的夸奖;

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