So let us melt, and make no noise

让我们这样熔化，不出响声

youdao

So let us melt, and make no noise.

让我们化了，一声也不作。

youdao

Without it, what we think of as knowledge, the "stuff" contained in our books and intellectual artefacts, would make no sense and be no more than noise.

没有了它，我们的书本和智慧作品中我们视之为知识的“内涵”就毫无意义，简直堪比噪音。

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If the editors of the New York Times changed the paper's line on Iraq and no one called them on it, would it make a noise?

WSJ: The Times They Are A-Changing