One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
不能通过正式手段从非正式到正式。
除了诱惑之外,我可以抵抗任何事物。
As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.
过去总是与我们同在,塑造着我们的现在和未来。
The present is the meeting point of memory and projection.
"Writing is a way to make sense of our dreams."
译文:花开花落已两载,看着盛开的花,想到两年未曾回家,就不免伤心落泪。小船还系在岸边,虽然我不能东归,飘零在外的我,心却长系故园。
【大意】一定要等到西施、毛嫱那样的美女作配偶,那么就终身不能成家了。