A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory.

A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory.

一个垂死的民族容忍现在，拒绝未来，在过去的伟大和半记忆的荣耀中找到满足。

-- John Steinbeck 约翰·斯坦贝克