约翰·P·鲁宾逊和杰弗里·戈德比在他们的《生活时间》一书中写道，有时文明就像是“一个被踩瘪的大蚁冢”。
Sometimes culture resembles "one big stomped anthill," wrote John P. Robinson and Geoffrey Godbey in their book Time for Life.
随着价格平均每年1.2%的增长，我们当然能够切身感受到荷包变瘪的疼痛。
With average pay only rising by 1.2% a year at the moment, we are certainly going to feel the pinch.
除非我们能为我们这个时代总结出经验教训，否则历史就成为了无关大意的一串串干瘪瘪的数字。
Unless we can draw out lessons for our own times, history becomes nothing but a series of dry data points with no broader relevance.
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