过去从未死去，甚至从未过去。
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic—being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.
拍卖中的"赢家诅咒"不在于你赢了，而在于你为所赢之物付出过多。
The rise of China represents the most significant challenge to the liberal international order since the end of the Cold War.