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By contrast, the contemporary New Yorker was churned out by “punctuation castratos who have gone to bed with commas for a quarter of a century.”
Project MUSE - What We Talk About; When We Talk About: The New Yorker
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Beyond his prowess as a Silicon Valley Merlin, Jobs’s footwear choices—or often, lack thereof—have remained a persistent fascination well past his death. He’s been held up as a dadcore icon for his near-religious dedication to New Balance’s blocky running sneakers. He was often photographed during his lifetime going conspicuously barefoot around the Apple offices. In his biography of Jobs, author Walter Isaacson recalled how in the mid-1970s, the budding tech savant arrived at the Atari offices wearing sandals and was referred to as a “hippie kid.”
Steve Jobs’s Beat-Up Birkenstocks Sold for $218,000. A Fan Made His Own.
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具体说来，新时代提出了什么要求？简而言之，就是用真正的诗体翻译莎士比亚的诗体剧文。这个任务，是朱生豪先生无法完成的。朱先生说过，他在翻译莎士比亚作品时，“当然预备全部用散文译出，否则将要了我的命”。1显然，朱先生也考虑过用诗体来翻译莎士比亚著作的问题，但是他的结论是：第一，靠单独一个人用诗体翻译《莎士比亚全集》是办不到的，会因此累死；第二，他用散文翻译也是不得已的办法，因为只有这样他才有可能在有生之年完成《莎士比亚全集》的翻译工作。
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