…Republic (Plato) Rendezvous with Rama (Clarke) Ringworld (Niven) The Stainless Steel Rat (Harrison) The Hobbit (Tolkien) Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Stevenson) The Odyssey (Homer) The Man who Would be King (Kipling) The Pearl (Steinbeck) Thus Spake Zarathustra (Nietzsche) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Dick) A Scanner Darkly (Dick) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Adams) Dracula (Stoker)…
……引发了那则声明，我当时听到这个消息挺兴奋的。我和其他人一样，是在 2001 年开始对阿富汗产生兴趣的。在那之前，我对这个国家唯一的接触就是读过吉卜林的《王权霸业》（The Man who would be King）。我听说过的关于阿富汗经济的一切，都和鸦片与海洛因脱不了干系。听说很有可能存在某种途径去种植……
…that sparked the announcement, I was excited to hear about it. I became interested in Afghanistan in 2001, along with everybody else. Before that, my only exposure to the country was my reading of "The Man who would be King", by Kipling. Everything that I've heard about the Afghanistan economy has had to do with opium and heroin. To have it announced that there was a very real possibility that there may be a way to grow…
……管别人赚多少钱。就我个人而言，那根本无关紧要。我很想和一个薪水高出正常三个数量级的人聊聊，但也仅仅是想知道这是怎么发生的，带着一种类似看《王权霸业》（The Man Who Would Be King）的心态。这个世界太随意、太随机了，这种事根本没什么大不了的意义。事实上，在一家快倒闭的公司里，我隔壁办公室的某个人后来就大捞了一笔……
…me care what anybody else makes. So far as I am concerned, it's simply not important. I'd love to talk to somebody overpaid by three orders of magnitude but only to find out how it happened, in a "The Man Who Would Be King" sort of way. The world is far too arbitrary and random for anything like that to have too much meaning. Indeed, someone in the office next to me in a dying company went on to harvest quite a bit of…
……在它写成的时候。它是关于美菲战争的。在美国出版两天后，就有人在参议院朗读它，以此主张美国应当停战。他最著名的故事之一《王权霸业》（The Man Who Would Be King），讲的是两个白人成功让一个阿富汗部落相信他们是神。事情败露是因为其中一人试图娶当地一个女人，她袭击了他并抓出了血，部落的祭司便宣称……
…when it was written. It was about the Philippine-American war. 2 days after publication in America, it was read in the Senate to argue for the US to end the war. One of his more famous stories, The Man Who Would Be King is about two white men who manage to convince an Afghani tribe they're gods. It becomes undone, when one tries to marry one of the women, she attacks him drawing blood, and the tribe's priest declares…
……《理想国》（柏拉图）《与拉玛相会》（克拉克）《环形世界》（尼文）《不锈钢老鼠》（哈里森）《霍比特人》（托尔金）《化身博士》（斯蒂文森）《奥德赛》（荷马）《王权霸业/野心家》（吉卜林）《珍珠》（斯坦贝克）《查拉图斯特拉如是说》（尼采）《仿生人会梦见电子羊吗？》（迪克）《黑暗扫描仪》（迪克）《银河系漫游指南》（亚当斯）《德古拉》（斯托克）……
…Republic (Plato) Rendezvous with Rama (Clarke) Ringworld (Niven) The Stainless Steel Rat (Harrison) The Hobbit (Tolkien) Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Stevenson) The Odyssey (Homer) The Man who Would be King (Kipling) The Pearl (Steinbeck) Thus Spake Zarathustra (Nietzsche) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Dick) A Scanner Darkly (Dick) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Adams) Dracula (Stoker)…
……引发了那则声明，我当时听到这个消息挺兴奋的。我和其他人一样，是在 2001 年开始对阿富汗产生兴趣的。在那之前，我对这个国家唯一的接触就是读过吉卜林的《王权霸业》（The Man who would be King）。我听说过的关于阿富汗经济的一切，都和鸦片与海洛因脱不了干系。听说很有可能存在某种途径去种植……
…that sparked the announcement, I was excited to hear about it. I became interested in Afghanistan in 2001, along with everybody else. Before that, my only exposure to the country was my reading of "The Man who would be King", by Kipling. Everything that I've heard about the Afghanistan economy has had to do with opium and heroin. To have it announced that there was a very real possibility that there may be a way to grow…
……管别人赚多少钱。就我个人而言，那根本无关紧要。我很想和一个薪水高出正常三个数量级的人聊聊，但也仅仅是想知道这是怎么发生的，带着一种类似看《王权霸业》（The Man Who Would Be King）的心态。这个世界太随意、太随机了，这种事根本没什么大不了的意义。事实上，在一家快倒闭的公司里，我隔壁办公室的某个人后来就大捞了一笔……
…me care what anybody else makes. So far as I am concerned, it's simply not important. I'd love to talk to somebody overpaid by three orders of magnitude but only to find out how it happened, in a "The Man Who Would Be King" sort of way. The world is far too arbitrary and random for anything like that to have too much meaning. Indeed, someone in the office next to me in a dying company went on to harvest quite a bit of…
……在它写成的时候。它是关于美菲战争的。在美国出版两天后，就有人在参议院朗读它，以此主张美国应当停战。他最著名的故事之一《王权霸业》（The Man Who Would Be King），讲的是两个白人成功让一个阿富汗部落相信他们是神。事情败露是因为其中一人试图娶当地一个女人，她袭击了他并抓出了血，部落的祭司便宣称……
…when it was written. It was about the Philippine-American war. 2 days after publication in America, it was read in the Senate to argue for the US to end the war. One of his more famous stories, The Man Who Would Be King is about two white men who manage to convince an Afghani tribe they're gods. It becomes undone, when one tries to marry one of the women, she attacks him drawing blood, and the tribe's priest declares…