时代祭
- 网络Jidai Matsuri
时代祭-
1987年的股灾之后，《纽约时报》（TheNewYorkTimes）在其头版为“放肆的镀金时代”祭上了一篇讣告，文章援引大思想家的话，预言肆无忌惮的自利行为行将在美国消亡。
After the 1987 stock market crash , the New York Times offered up a page-one obituary for a " gilded , impudent age , " quoting great minds who predicted the demise of unbridled self-interest in America .
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但是，如果我们要问：是甚么灵方妙药使得希腊人，在鼎盛时代，尽管酒神祭冲动和政治冲动非常剧烈，却不会因为静坐参禅，或者因为穷兵黩武，为了争夺世界霸权和世界荣誉，以致精疲力竭；
But let us ask by means of what remedy it was possible for the Greeks during their great period , in spite of the extraordinary strength of their Dionysian and political instincts , not to exhaust themselves either in ecstatic brooding or in a consuming chase after worldly power and worldly honor ,